Fals - Muzaffar ibn Muhammad

Darband — the "Gate of Gates" — occupied one of the most strategically fought-over chokepoints in the medieval world, the narrow coastal corridor between the Caucasus mountains and the Caspian Sea. The Emirate that produced this fals existed in the fractious aftermath of Seljuk expansion into the Caucasus, with local dynasties like the Mazyadids of Darband maneuvering carefully between Seljuk overlordship and Armenian, Georgian, and Shirvanshah pressure from multiple directions.

Copper fals from this region and period survive in small numbers and are poorly represented in major collections, making the Wilkes corpus one of the few systematic references for attribution.