Dirham - Salar ibn Yazid as Abu Harib

The Shirvanshah rulers of the eastern Caucasus occupied an awkward position during the mid-eleventh century — nominally subordinate to the Buyid confederation and then increasingly pressured by the expanding Seljuk advance through the region. Salar ibn Yazid's use of the epithet Abu Harib, meaning "father of war," suggests a ruler defining himself through military resistance rather than administrative inheritance.

Billon coinage from this dynasty in this period is poorly documented in Western collections, with Zeno catalog numbers often representing unique or near-unique specimens.