THE EARLY SECULAR ISLAMIC DYNASTIES
    The caliphs combined religious and secular sovereignty in their own persons, but local powers began to assert themselves as the decades rolled on.  Governors began to hand on their offices to their children, then they stopped paying tithes to the caliph, eventually retaining fealty in name only.  There got to be several caliphs too.  Pretty soon the Islamic world was a fractured mess of little kingdoms and warlords.

SAMANID, Nasr II ibn Ahmad, 914-943, gold dinar, A-1449, 311 AH (923 AD), Nishapur, lightly crinkled, VF $160.00 sold 4/8/2008
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SAMANID, Nuh I ibn Nasr, 943-954 AD, silver multiple dirham, 43mm, 11.4g, A-1455, ND,  Kishm, well struck for type, VF $57.00 sold 2/13/2008
These big silver coins were struck in and around the silver mines of Panjshir in Afghanistan.
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SAMANID, Mansur ibn Nuh, 961-76 AD, silver multiple dirham, 44mm, 18.8g, A-1465, ND, Ma'dan mint, nice strike for type, old scratch, VF $52.00 sold 2/13/2008
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SAMANID, Mansur ibn Nuh, 961-76 AD, silver dirham, A-1466, Al-Shash (Tashkent), 35(5?) AH (966 AD), crude, cleaned F $28.00 sold
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SAMANID, Mansur ibn Nuh, 961-76 AD, silver dirham, A-1466, Samarqand, 356 AH (967 AD), crude, cleaned VF $36.00 sold
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BUWAYHID, 'Imad Al Daula Abu Al Husein, 934-39 AD, silver dirham, Madinat Al-Salaam, 335 AH (946 AD), A-1540, crude F $36.00 sold
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BUWAYHID, Mu'izz Al Daulah, 939-67, silver dirham, Al-Basrah, 352 AH (963 AD), citing heir 'Izz Al-Daulah, A-1545, nice F $36.50 sold
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