1 Dirham - al-Layth b. 'Ali Fars

The Saffarids were originally a coppersmith's dynasty — Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar, the founder, rose from that trade to carve out an eastern Iranian empire through sheer military aggression, eventually threatening the Abbasid caliphate itself. By 297 AH, the dynasty had long since fractured into regional governors nominally acknowledging Baghdad while striking their own silver in the name of local amirs. Al-Layth b. 'Ali is among the more obscure of these late Saffarid figures attested primarily through coin evidence rather than chronicle sources.

Fars as a mint location places this squarely in the contested southwestern Persian territories where Saffarid authority was already eroding before the Samanid consolidation overwhelmed them entirely within a few years.