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Drachm - 'Abd Allah b. 'Ariq Arab-Sasanian
| Issuer | Umayyad Caliphate |
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| Year | 685-686 |
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| Currency | Drachm (661-750) |
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| Obverse script | Pahlavi/Arabic |
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| Mintage | 65 (685) - - 66 (686) - - |
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Arab-Sasanian coinage occupied an administrative stopgap — Arab governors issuing silver in the Sasanian tradition while the new caliphate had not yet established its own monetary identity. 'Abd Allah b. 'Ariq governed in the east during a particularly unstable stretch of Umayyad consolidation, just as the Second Fitna was exhausting itself and 'Abd al-Malik was moving toward the sweeping monetary reform he would complete in 696–698. This drachm predates that reform by roughly a decade.
The reformed coinage of 696–698 rendered Arab-Sasanian types obsolete almost overnight.