Dirham - Anonymous Abarqubadh

The anonymous dirhams struck at Abarqubadh belong to the transitional period following Abd al-Malik's sweeping monetary reform of 696–698 AD, which abolished figural imagery and Sasanian-derived designs in favor of purely epigraphic coinage. Abarqubadh, a mint in the Jibal region of western Iran, was one of dozens of provincial mints absorbed into this reformed system. The absence of a caliph's name on this type is not an anomaly — early Umayyad epigraphic coinage frequently omitted personal attribution, placing Quranic authority above dynastic identification.

The weight of 2.60 g sits below the reformed dirham standard of approximately 2.97 g, consistent with known weight drift at provincial mints during the Marwanid period.