Fractional Dinar - al-Husayn b. Tahir Sijistan

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.