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Dinar - Imad al-Din Zangi Shahrazur
| Issuer | Zengids of Shahrazur |
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| Year | 1220-1235 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Entirely epigraphic field bearing multiple lines of Arabic Kufic-style script arranged horizontally across the flan, typical of Zengid gold coinage. The central area contains the religious profession of faith (Shahada) in angular script, with the ruler's name and titles disposed in the surrounding registers. A marginal legend in cursive Naskh or Kufic script encircles the central inscription within a linear border. The coin is struck on an irregular, slightly irregular flan characteristic of hammered medieval Islamic gold dinars. The inscription is boldly raised with deep relief lettering throughout the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله |
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Imad al-Din Zangi of Shahrazur ruled a peripheral branch of the Zengid dynasty in the Kurdish highlands east of the Tigris, a region that changed hands repeatedly between competing Zengid lines, the Ayyubids, and eventually the Mongols. His dinars are among the rarer issues of the broader Zengid coinage corpus — Shahrazur never controlled a major mint city, and output reflects that.
The underweight suggests either local gold supply constraints or deliberate debasement relative to the Abbasid standard.