Broad silver dirham of Nuh III bin Mansur (976-997), 370s AH, Shash, Samanid Empire. 34mm, 3.02 grams.

Scarce very large silver dirham.

The Samanids were a native dynasty in Central Asia and Greater Khorasan, named after its founder Saman Khuda who converted to Sunni Islam despite being from Zoroastrian theocratic nobility.