Dirham - Anonymous al-Sus

Al-Sus was a mint city in the Khuzestan region of what is now southwestern Iran, operating under Umayyad administration following the Arab conquest of the Sasanian Empire. The anonymous attribution reflects the early Umayyad practice of issuing coins without a caliph's name — a transitional phase before Abd al-Malik's sweeping monetary reform of 696–697 AD standardized the epigraphic dirham across the caliphate. Coins from al-Sus are notably scarcer than output from the major Syrian and Iraqi mints, a function of regional rather than imperial production priorities.

The weight here falls slightly below the canonical 2.97 g reform standard, not unusual for provincial strikes from the eastern periphery.