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Fractional Dinar - Tahir al-Tamimi Sijistan
| Issuer | Saffarid dynasty |
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| Year | 966 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له محمد رسول الله أرسله بالهدى ودين الحق ليظهره على الدين كله ولو كره المشركون |
| Reverse description | Aniconic field displaying a four-line Arabic inscription within a single inner circle, naming the governor Tahir ibn Muhammad al-Tamimi and providing the mint and date formula. The central field contains the lines arranged horizontally in the typical Abbasid-derived format. The marginal legend band surrounding the inner circle carries the Basmala and the mint-and-date formula stating the coin was struck at Sijistan in the year 355 AH. The flan is irregular and slightly clipped, consistent with hammered fractional gold coinage of the Saffarid period. |
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The Saffarids of Sistan were a dynasty in terminal decline by the 960s, their authority repeatedly contested by the Samanids pressing from the north. Tahir al-Tamimi's issues from this period are among the last coherent gold coinage attributed to Saffarid administration before the dynasty effectively collapsed as an independent power.
Fractional gold from provincial Islamic mints of this period survives in genuinely small numbers — these were not hoarded in quantity, and Sistan saw enough political turbulence to disrupt any accumulation.