ZIYARID: Mardawij Ibn Ziyar (927-935), gold dinar (2.35g), Mah Al-Basra (Nihawand) mint, AH 322. Citing Abbasid caliph Al-Qahir Billah. A-1530. Very fine.
Mardawij, the founder of the Ziyarid dynasty, was a Zoroastrian. His brother Wushmagir who succeeded him in 935 embraced Islam as a personal religion and as the religion of the state.
Estimate: 240-260