Dinar - Mansur I b. Nuh

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.