Dirham - Anonymous Mazinan

The anonymous post-reform Umayyad dirham emerged from Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan's sweeping monetary overhaul of 696–698 CE, which deliberately stripped coinage of all figural imagery — a direct repudiation of the Byzantine and Sasanian visual traditions the caliphate had inherited. Mazinan, a mint in Khorasan, operated within a network of eastern mints that served the fiscal demands of ongoing expansion into Central Asia.

The "anonymous" attribution reflects the absence of a caliph's name, consistent with early Umayyad epigraphic coinage policy before named issues became more prevalent under later governors.