Fals - Abd al-Malik I ibn Nuh

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.