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Drachm - 'Abd al-'Aziz b. 'Abd Allah Arab-Sasanian
| Issuer | Umayyad Caliphate |
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| Year | 694 |
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| Currency | Drachm (661-750) |
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| Obverse description | Bust of the Sasanian king facing right in the characteristic Arab-Sasanian style, depicted wearing a elaborately winged crown with a crescent and globe finial, derived from late Sasanian royal iconography. The effigy is rendered within a beaded inner circle, with two flanking crescents with pellets visible in the outer field at approximately nine and three o'clock positions. Arabic marginal legends surround the portrait, adapting the Pahlavi inscriptional tradition of the Sasanian prototype. The overall design closely follows the late Sasanian drachm type of Khusrow II but incorporates Arab-Islamic modifications to the legends. |
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| Obverse script | Arabic/Pahlavi |
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'Abd al-'Aziz ibn 'Abd Allah ibn 'Amir served as governor of Khurasan, and his Arab-Sasanian issues belong to the transitional coinage produced before the Umayyad monetary reform of 696–698 CE under 'Abd al-Malik. That reform — which replaced hybrid Sasanian-style silver with fully epigraphic Islamic dirhams — effectively ended the Arab-Sasanian series within a few years of this coin's minting. Pieces struck in 694 fall almost precisely at the twilight of that tradition.