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Fractional Dinar - Muhammad I
| Issuer | Alamut State |
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| Year | 1138-1162 |
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| Weight | 1.42 g |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | ND (1138-1162) |
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The Alamut State — the Nizari Ismaili polity headquartered in the Alborz mountain fortresses of northern Persia — produced coinage intermittently and often in fractional denominations, partly because the isolated castle economies it served had little use for full-weight dinars. Muhammad I, imam from roughly 1138 to 1162, ruled during a period of relative consolidation after decades of open conflict with the Seljuq sultanate. Gold issues attributable to his imamate are genuinely rare; most surviving Alamut coinage is silver or of disputed attribution.