The Shaddadids were a Kurdish dynasty whose control over Ganja — the principal city of Caucasian Albania — placed them squarely between competing pressures from the Seljuk sultanate to the south and the Georgian kingdom to the north. Al-Fadl II b. Shawur ruled as a Seljuk client following his father's submission to Alp Arslan, and fractional silver from this period reflects the fragmented monetary conditions of a frontier zone where full dirhams were scarce and local fractions filled commercial gaps.
The absence of any standard reference numbers across Lebedev, Album, and ICV suggests this piece has not been formally cataloged — a situation not unusual for Shaddadid fractions, which survive in small numbers and were largely ignored by earlier Islamic numismatic surveys focused on major mints.
The Shaddadids were a Kurdish dynasty whose control over Ganja — the principal city of Caucasian Albania — placed them squarely between competing pressures from the Seljuk sultanate to the south and the Georgian kingdom to the north. Al-Fadl II b. Shawur ruled as a Seljuk client following his father's submission to Alp Arslan, and fractional silver from this period reflects the fragmented monetary conditions of a frontier zone where full dirhams were scarce and local fractions filled commercial gaps.
The absence of any standard reference numbers across Lebedev, Album, and ICV suggests this piece has not been formally cataloged — a situation not unusual for Shaddadid fractions, which survive in small numbers and were largely ignored by earlier Islamic numismatic surveys focused on major mints.