1/2 Drachm - Jarir Abbasid Governors of Tabaristan - Arab-Sasanian

Tabaristan — the mountainous region south of the Caspian Sea — resisted full Arab administrative control long after the surrounding territories had been absorbed, and its coinage reflects that friction directly. The Abbasid governors who struck these fractional silver pieces inherited a minting tradition rooted in late Sasanian practice, retaining the underlying fabric and module of the pre-Islamic issues rather than imposing a clean break. Jarir governed during a period when the province was still negotiating its relationship with Baghdad, and the half-drachm denomination itself was a local convention with no real parallel in mainstream Abbasid silver production.