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Dirham - Minuchihr I ibn Yazid
| Issuer | Shirvanshah dynasty |
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| Year | 1027-1034 |
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| Value | 1 Dirham (0.7) |
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| Obverse description | Centrally arranged Kufic inscription occupying the entire field in three horizontal lines, reading the Islamic profession of faith (Shahada). The legends are struck on a flat, unadorned flan typical of billon dirhams of the early medieval Caucasian dynasties. The script is executed in angular Kufic style, with strokes showing the characteristic weight variation of hand-engraved dies. The coin exhibits an irregular, slightly cracked flan consistent with hammered billon coinage of the period. No border ornament or marginal legend is present. |
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| Obverse lettering | لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له محمد رسول الله |
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The Shirvanshah rulers of this period occupied a precarious position between the declining Buyid sphere and the advancing Ghaznavid power, issuing coins that functioned as much as political declarations of local autonomy as they did as exchange currency. Minuchihr I's reign coincided with Mahmud of Ghazna's campaigns reshaping the broader Caucasian political order, yet the Shirvanshah mint continued operating under its own authority throughout.
The billon composition reflects a regional silver shortage chronic across the southern Caucasus in the early eleventh century. The Wilkes gap in the reference sequence suggests this particular type remains uncatalogued in that corpus — a genuine rarity in the documentary record, not merely the numismatic one.