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1 Dirham - 'Ubayd Allah
| Issuer | Arminiya, Emirate of |
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| Year | 791 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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| Mintage | 175 (791) |
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Arminiya was an Abbasid administrative province carved from the former Sasanian and Byzantine borderlands of the southern Caucasus, governed by appointed emirs who held fragile authority over a region that never fully pacified. By 791, the province had seen repeated revolts, most notably the great Armenian uprising of the 770s that required a brutal Abbasid suppression under al-Mahdi. 'Ubayd Allah's tenure as governor sits in that uneasy aftermath.
Album 219G places this among the scarcer provincial Abbasid dirhams — regional issues from Arminiya lack the consistent mint output of Iraq or Khurasan, and documented die combinations remain incompletely catalogued.