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Dirham - Abd al Rashid
| Issuer | Ghaznavid dynasty |
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| Year | 441 (1049) |
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| Currency | Dinar (977-1186) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Abd al-Rashid's reign began only because his half-brother Mawdud died without a clear succession plan in 1041, touching off nearly a decade of dynastic instability before Abd al-Rashid seized power in 1049. His rule lasted barely two years — he was murdered in 1052 during a coup led by a Turkish slave commander named Toghrul, who briefly installed a puppet before being killed himself. Coins from this reign are correspondingly scarce, products of a mint operating under a ruler whose hold on Ghazna was never secure.