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Dirham - Anonymous Ifriqiya
| Issuer | Umayyad Caliphate |
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| Year | 698-750 |
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| Value | 1 Dirham (0.7) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (698-750) |
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The anonymous dirhams of Ifriqiya represent the caliphate's earliest systematic silver coinage from North Africa, struck in the wake of the Arab conquest of Carthage in 698 — the same campaign that permanently ended Byzantine administrative control of the Maghreb. The Umayyad governor Musa ibn Nusayr oversaw the consolidation of the region and the establishment of minting infrastructure at Qayrawan, which supplied coinage to both the local garrison economy and the westward push into al-Andalus beginning in 711.
The absence of a caliph's name on these pieces likely reflects transitional administrative uncertainty rather than deliberate policy.