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Dirham - Anonymous Dabil
| Issuer | Umayyad Caliphate |
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| Year | 698-750 |
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| Reference(s) | Album #135 |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays a four-line Arabic inscription within a single inner circle, surrounded by a continuous marginal legend in Kufic script. The central inscription presents Surah Al-Ikhlas (Quran 112), rendered in the formal angular Kufic style of early Umayyad religious coinage. The marginal legend contains the Quranic verse of proclamation (Surah At-Tawba 9:33). The reverse design, like the obverse, is purely epigraphic with no figural or decorative elements, enclosed within a beaded outer border. The flan shows characteristic irregularity of hand-struck silver coinage from this mint. |
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| Mintage | ND (698-750) |
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Dabil — classical Armenian Dvin — was among the earliest mints to strike fully reformed Islamic dirhams following Abd al-Malik's monetary overhaul of 698 AD, which abolished figural imagery and replaced Sasanian-derived designs with purely epigraphic content. The city sat at the administrative heart of the Umayyad province of Arminiya, and its mint output helped monetize a frontier zone perpetually contested between the caliphate and both Byzantine and Khazar forces to the north.
"Anonymous" here means the dirham names no governor — unusual for provincial Umayyad issues, which frequently carried mint-official names as accountability markers.