Fals - Nasr I b. Ahmad al-Shash mint

Nasr I ruled as the Samanid governor of Transoxiana under Abbasid suzerainty, and al-Shash — modern Tashkent — was one of the easternmost mints operating under his authority. Copper fulus of this period are chronically underrepresented in scholarship; numismatic attention to the Samanids has concentrated heavily on their silver dirhams, leaving the copper coinage poorly catalogued and often misattributed. The Zeno reference here is one of the few reliable anchors for this type.