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Dirham - Anonymous Darabjird
| Issuer | Umayyad Caliphate |
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| Year | 698-750 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Purely epigraphic design typical of the reformed Umayyad coinage introduced under Abd al-Malik. The central field contains three lines of Arabic Kufic script reading the shahada declaration of faith. An inner marginal legend in Arabic names the mint of Darabjird and invokes the basmala, while the outer marginal legend carries the Quranic verse from Surah At-Tawbah (9:33) proclaiming the mission of the Prophet Muhammad. The overall design is devoid of figural imagery, reflecting the aniconic reform of the Islamic monetary system, with the legends arranged in concentric registers across the flat, slightly irregular flan. |
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| Obverse lettering | Central field: لا إله إلا / الله وحده / لا شريك له. Inner margin: بسم الله ضرب هذا الدرهم بدارابجرد. Outer margin: محمد رسول الله أرسله بالهدى ودين الحق ليظهره على الدين كله ولو كره المشركون |
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Darabjird, in the Fārs province of modern Iran, was among the Sasanian mint cities absorbed into the Umayyad monetary system following the Arab conquests. The anonymous attribution here reflects the caliphate's transitional coinage policy after Abd al-Malik's currency reform of 696–698 AD, which abolished figurative imagery and imposed a purely epigraphic silver standard across the empire. Coins struck in this period before firm administrative control reached every provincial mint often lack explicit caliph attribution — the mint name survived, the issuing authority did not always follow.