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Dirham - 'Amr b. al-Layth Shiraz mint
| Issuer | Saffarid dynasty |
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| Year | 879-901 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse lettering | لله / محمد / رسول الله / عمرو بن الليث / شيراز |
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ʿAmr b. al-Layth ruled the Saffarid domains after wresting power from his brother Yaʿqub's successors, and his long tenure saw sustained silver coinage from Shiraz — the administrative heart of Fars province. Unlike many contemporaneous dynasties issuing debased fractions, Saffarid dirhams of this period maintained respectable silver content, reflecting both provincial prosperity and a deliberate posture of legitimacy toward the Abbasid caliphate, whose name continued to appear on the coinage even as real power had long since dissolved eastward.
ʿAmr was eventually captured by the Samanids in 900 and sent to Baghdad, where the caliph had him executed in 902.