Qanhari Dirham 'Damma' - Al-Mu'tazz

The Qanhari dirham series from Sind represents one of the smallest silver denominations struck in the medieval Islamic west of the subcontinent, produced under local amirs who maintained nominal Abbasid caliphal acknowledgment while operating with considerable autonomy. Al-Mu'tazz as a citing authority places this piece within a politically fractured Sind, where the damma — a fractional unit derived from the Arabic term for a small weight — circulated in a regional economy largely disconnected from the great silver flows of the central Abbasid and later Samanid monetary networks.