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Fractional Dinar - al-Husayn b. Tahir Sijistan
| Issuer | Saffarid dynasty |
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| Year | 972 |
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| Value | Fractional Dinar (1/2) |
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| Obverse lettering | لا اله الا الله وحده لا شريك له بسم الله ضرب هذا الدينار بسجستان سنة احدى وستين وثلثمائة |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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Al-Husayn b. Tahir held Sijistan only briefly in the early 970s, a regional governorship squeezed between the collapsing Samanid grip on the east and the persistent military ambitions of the Buyids further west. Saffarid coinage from this sub-period is poorly documented in the major references, and fractional gold issues attributable to specific governors are genuinely rare survivals — most fractional dinars circulated hard and were eventually melted.
Album 1416 covers a narrow slice of late Saffarid issues where mint attribution and governor identification depend almost entirely on the coin itself rather than corroborating historical record.