Normal arabic inscriptions on both sides, including Kalima, mint (Shash) and date (315 AH = 927 AD). Mint of Shash (Chach, or modern Tashkent). 25mm, 3 grams. Album 1452; Cf. Zeno 55338

The Samanid Empire, also known as the Samanian Empire, Samanid dynasty, Samanid amirate, or simply as the Samanids, was a Persianate Sunni Muslim empire. The empire was centered in Khorasan and Transoxiana; at its greatest extent encompassing much of Central Asia, from 819 to 999.