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Fals - Abd al-Malik I ibn Nuh
| Issuer | Samanid dynasty |
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| Year | 954-961 |
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| Value | 1 Fals (1⁄60) |
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| Reverse description | Central field carries a multi-line kufic inscription reading: لله محمد رسول الله المطیع للہ عبدالملک بن نوح (For Allah; Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah; al-Mutīʿ li-ʾllāh; Abd al-Malik ibn Nuh), identifying both the Abbasid caliph al-Muti and the Samanid amir. The marginal legend contains a Quranic passage: لله الأمر من قبل و من بعد و يومئذ يفرح المؤمنون بنصر الله (To Allah belongs the command before and after, and on that day the believers will rejoice in the victory of Allah), taken from Surah Ar-Rum (30:4-5). The inscription layout and kufic letterforms are consistent with Samanid administrative coinage of the mid-fourth century AH. The flan exhibits the irregular edges typical of hammered copper production at the Bukhara mint. |
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| Reverse lettering | Reverse center: لله محمد رسول الله المطیع للہ عبدالملک بن نوح Reverse margin: لله الأمر من قبل و من بعد و يومئذ يفرح المؤمنون بنصر الله |
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Abd al-Malik I ruled the Samanid amirate for less than a decade before dying at roughly twenty years of age, likely from injuries sustained in a polo accident in 961. His reign saw continued Samanid control over Khurasan and Transoxiana at a moment when the dynasty was still near its administrative peak, though frontier pressure from the Buyids to the west was mounting. Copper fals of this period circulated heavily in local bazaar economies where silver dirhams were too valuable for small transactions.