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Dinar - Malikshah I Uncertain mint
| Issuer | Great Seljuq |
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| Year | 465-485 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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Malikshah I ruled the Seljuq sultanate at its greatest territorial extent, but centralized mint control was never a strength of the dynasty. Gold dinars from his reign circulated across an enormous geographic range — from Anatolia to Khurasan — and many were struck at provincial mints that either omitted or corrupted their mint signatures entirely. The pale gold composition here likely reflects a regional treasury drawing on debased local bullion rather than the higher-purity output of the main Abbasid-adjacent mints.