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Dirham - Anonymous Fasa
| Issuer | Umayyad Caliphate |
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| Year | 698-750 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field contains three lines of Arabic Kufic script reading the shahada declaration of faith. The inscription is surrounded by a circular marginal legend in Arabic Kufic script running along the inner border. The entire design is executed in a flat, epigraphic style characteristic of early Umayyad coinage reform issues, with no figural imagery. The field is slightly irregular due to the hammered flan. |
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| Reverse lettering | محمد رسول الله أرسله بالهدى ودين الحق ليظهره على الدين كله |
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The anonymous dirhams of Fasa belong to the early phase of Arab-Sasanian coinage reform, when Umayyad administrators were still navigating how to replace Persian monetary conventions across newly conquered Fars province. The caliph Abd al-Malik's monetary reforms of 696–698 mandated fully epigraphic coinage across the caliphate, yet provincial mints like Fasa lagged, continuing to strike without caliph names well into the Umayyad period. Album 126 encompasses a loose grouping of issues that scholars have struggled to sequence precisely due to overlapping die practices and inconsistent mint output records.
Fasa itself had been a significant Sasanian administrative center, and its mint inherited established metallurgical infrastructure — which likely accounts for the relatively consistent silver fineness seen across surviving specimens.