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1/2 Drachm - Muqatil Abbasid Governors of Tabaristan - Arab-Sasanian
| Issuer | Abbasid Caliphate |
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| Year | 757-800 |
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| Currency | Drachm (750-948) |
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| Reverse script | Pahlavi |
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| Mintage | 139 (757) - W. H. Valentine#80 - ND (780-800) - 163-183 AH - 181 (798) - - |
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Tabaristan — the heavily forested region south of the Caspian Sea — resisted full Abbasid administrative control far longer than surrounding territories, and its semi-autonomous governors continued striking fractional silver in the inherited Sasanian style well after the conquest. The Muqatil governors used this coinage to maintain local economic continuity in a region where Iranian monetary conventions were deeply entrenched and Arab-weight standards would have been commercially disruptive.
Valentijn's Sn#80 classification places this among the later issues of the series, by which point Abbasid authority over the mint was nominal at best.