Commen | Abu Shuja' Jamal al-Dawla Farrukhzad ibn Masu'd I reigned from 1053 AD
to 1059 AD on the back of the empire created by his grandfather Mahmud.
The Ghaznavid throne was briefly usurped in 1052 AD by Abu Sa'id
Toghril, a slave commander, who was expelled by the population of
Ghazna, and it is likely that this large dinar was struck a few months
only after the prince recovered his throne (Clifford Edmund Bosworth, The Islamic Dynasties, Edinburgh, 1996, p. 296-97). The short reign of Farrukhzad was followed by his brother, Ibrahim from AD1059-1099.
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