Fractional Dinar - Khalaf ibn Ahmad Sijistan

Khalaf ibn Ahmad ruled the Saffarid rump state in Sistan as a semi-autonomous vassal caught between Samanid and later Buyid pressure. His fractional gold issues are among the thinnest surviving threads of Saffarid monetary output — the dynasty by this point controlled little beyond Zaranj and its immediate hinterland. Album 1417 is sparsely represented in major collections, and examples attributable to Khalaf's earlier regnal years are considerably harder to place than his later, better-documented strikes.