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Dinar - Mansur I b. Nuh
| Issuer | Samanid dynasty |
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| Year | 962-976 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | 350 (962) - - 351 (962) - - 352 (963) - - 353 (964) - - 354 (965) - - 355 (966) - - 356 (967) - - 357 (968) - - 358 (969) - - 359 (970) - - 360 (971) - - 361 (972) - - 362 (973) - - 363 (974) - - 364 (975) - - 365 (976) - - |
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Mansur I came to power in 961 following the death of his father Abd al-Malik I, ruling a dynasty that had by then made Bukhara one of the great intellectual centers of the Islamic world — home to the young Ibn Sina and a court that patronized Persian literature in ways that would outlast the Samanids by centuries. His reign was politically turbulent; Ghaznavid and Buyid pressure was mounting on Samanid borders, and internal revolts by provincial governors were a persistent drain on central authority.
Samanid gold dinars of this period were struck to the Abbasid weight standard, acknowledging the caliphate's nominal suzerainty while the dynasty exercised fully independent rule.