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Dirham - Muhammad ibn Ahmad
| Issuer | Shirvanshah dynasty |
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| Year | 981-991 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by a multi-line Arabic religious legend arranged in horizontal registers within a plain inner circle, surrounded by a dotted border. An outer marginal legend in Arabic Kufic script runs along the circumference. The flan is irregular and shows characteristic hammered manufacture, with areas of weakness and flan cracks visible on the lower and left portions of the coin. |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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The Shirvanshah rulers of this period occupied an awkward position between the declining Buyid sphere and the encroaching Samanid east, issuing coinage that asserted local dynastic legitimacy while nominally acknowledging Abbasid caliphal authority. Muhammad ibn Ahmad's dirhams from this decade are poorly documented in Western references — the Wilkes gap is telling — and most surviving examples derive from hoards recovered in the southern Caucasus and northern Iran rather than from systematic excavation.