Drachm - 'Abd Allah b. 'Ariq Arab-Sasanian

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.