
Shahada spread on both sides, date and mint in fields. 376 AH (986 CE), 25mm, 2.04 grams. Bukhara mint. Cf. Zeno 56389.
With a full name "Nuh bin Mansur" below the second part of the Kalima on the reverse.
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.