Dinar - al-Saffah

Abu al-Abbas al-Saffah founded the Abbasid Caliphate after the 750 overthrow of the Umayyads, and his gold dinars reflect the immediate ideological break — Umayyad figural tendencies were already long gone from Islamic coinage, but the new dynasty used the mint output to project theological legitimacy at a moment when the regime was still physically eliminating Umayyad survivors. Al-Saffah ruled fewer than four years before dying of smallpox in 754, making his issues among the shortest-reigned of any Abbasid caliph.

The brevity of that reign keeps certified examples genuinely scarce relative to his successors.