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Dirham - Anonymous Mahay
| Issuer | Umayyad Caliphate |
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| Year | 698-750 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse lettering | محمد رسول الله أرسله بالهدى ودين الحق ليظهره على الدين كله |
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Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan's monetary reform of 698 CE was a deliberate break from the Sasanian and Byzantine coin traditions that had dominated the region for centuries. The fully epigraphic design — abandoning figural imagery entirely — was as much a theological statement as an administrative one, enacted just as the caliphate was consolidating control over its vast and culturally heterogeneous territories. The term "anonymous" here is functional, not modest: no caliph's name appears on these coins, authority asserted through text alone.
The Mahay mint designation places production in what is now northwestern Iran, one of several provincial mints brought into conformity with the reformed standard under Abd al-Malik's directives.