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Fals - Ahmad b. Muhammad
| Issuer | Saffarid dynasty |
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| Year | 923-963 |
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| Value | 1 Fals (1⁄60) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse lettering | محمد رسول الله صلى الله عليه و سلم المطيع لله لله الامر من قبل ومن بعد ويومئذ يفرح المؤمنون بنصر الله |
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The Saffarid dynasty by the mid-tenth century was a shadow of the force that had terrorized Khorasan under Ya'qub b. al-Layth a century earlier. Ahmad b. Muhammad ruled as a largely nominal vassal, first under Samanid pressure and later in uneasy accommodation with it. Copper fals of this period circulated at the lowest tier of a fragmented monetary economy in Sistan, filling transactional gaps that silver dirhams — increasingly hoarded or exported — would not.
Album 1408 encompasses a wide forty-year bracket, and attribution within it often depends on mint and date legibility rather than type alone.