Catalog
Fals - Anonymous citing al-Amīr Ismāʿīl
| Issuer | Abbasid Caliphate |
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| Weight | 3.13 g |
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| Obverse lettering | لا اله الا الله وحده |
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| Edge | Plain (irregular) |
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Ismāʿīl ibn Aḥmad was the Samanid governor of Khurasan and Transoxiana who, in 900 AD, defeated and captured the Saffarid ruler ʿAmr ibn al-Layth, delivering him to the Abbasid caliph al-Muʿtaḍid in Baghdad. The gesture secured Samanid legitimacy under Abbasid suzerainty — and coins citing Ismāʿīl as al-Amīr reflect precisely that arrangement: local dynastic authority acknowledged, caliphal sovereignty formally maintained. Anonymous copper fulus from this administrative zone are notoriously difficult to attribute with precision, as provincial mints operated with considerable independence in their copper issues.