Qanhari Dirham 'Damma' - Sayf al-Din 'Umayd

The Qanhari script dirham series from Sind occupies an awkward transitional moment in the region's monetary history — issued under rulers who nominally acknowledged Ghaznavid suzerainty after Mahmud's campaigns into the subcontract, yet maintained distinctly local epigraphic traditions rather than adopting the standardized Samanid-derived formats their overlords preferred. Sayf al-Din 'Umayd's issues are among the later examples of this Qanhari tradition, produced as the script itself was already falling out of administrative use.