Dirham - Anonymous Dabil

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.