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Dirham - Anonymous Mah
| Issuer | Umayyad Caliphate |
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| Year | 698-750 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse lettering | لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له بسم الله ضرب هذا الدرهم بـ [Mint] في سنة [Year] |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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The anonymous Umayyad dirham emerged directly from Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan's monetary reform of 696–698 CE, a deliberate rupture with the Sasanian-derived coinage that had circulated across the former Persian territories. The reform was explicitly ideological: figurative imagery was stripped away entirely, replaced with Quranic inscription, creating the first purely epigraphic Islamic silver coinage. Byzantine and Sasanian prototypes had dominated regional exchange for generations — their sudden demonetization was as much a political statement as an economic one.
Weight standardization across the caliphate's mints was enforced with unusual rigor for the period, though minor regional deviations in fineness are well documented.