Dinar - Ma'dan Amir al-Mu'minin b' il-Hejaz

The phrase "Ma'dan Amir al-Mu'minin b' il-Hejaz" — meaning "Mine of the Commander of the Faithful in the Hijaz" — identifies this dinar as struck from gold extracted from caliphal mining operations in the Arabian Peninsula, a practice the Umayyads used to assert direct control over bullion at the source. The Hijaz mines were administered as crown property, and coins struck explicitly from their output served an administrative function as much as a monetary one, documenting the caliphate's resource extraction for an audience of officials and merchants who would have understood the inscription's bureaucratic weight.

Production falls within the later Umayyad period, after Abd al-Malik's 696 AD monetary reform had already standardized the epigraphic dinar type.