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Dirham - Baha' al-Dawla Abu Nasr Shiraz mint
| Issuer | Buyid Dynasty (Fars branch) |
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| Year | 990-1012 |
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| Reference(s) | A#1574 |
| Obverse description | Central field occupied by multiple horizontal lines of Arabic Kufic script arranged in concentric registers, containing the Shahada (Islamic profession of faith) and the name and titles of the Buyid amir Baha' al-Dawla Abu Nasr. A circular marginal legend in Arabic script runs along the inner border of the coin, partially visible due to the irregular flan. The surface is heavily granular and worn, characteristic of hammered silver dirhams of the Buyid period. |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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The Buyid amir Baha' al-Dawla ruled a dynasty that had reduced the Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad to figureheads while maintaining the fiction of their authority on coinage — a calculated political arrangement that kept the Sunni religious establishment from open revolt against a Shi'i ruling house. Shiraz served as the administrative heart of the Fars branch throughout his reign, and the mint there was among the most consistently productive in the Buyid system.
Album 1574 encompasses the full span of Baha' al-Dawla's twenty-two year rule, making precise dating within the type dependent on regnal year notation present on individual specimens.