Dirham - Anonymous Darabjird

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.