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Dinar - Malikshah I Uncertain mint

Issuer Great Seljuq
Year 465-485
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Currency Dinar (628/632-1598)
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Reverse 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.

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