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Drachm - 'Abd Allah b. 'Umayya Arab-Sasanian
| Issuer | Umayyad Caliphate |
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| Year | 694-697 |
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| Value | Drachm (1) |
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| Obverse script | Pahlavi/Arabic |
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| Reverse description | Central fire altar flanked by two attendants standing in profile facing inward, each holding a staff or barsom, rendered in the standard Sasanian numismatic convention. The altar and attendants are depicted in schematic form within a beaded inner circle. The surrounding margin carries a Pahlavi inscription recording the mint name and regnal year, with the governor's name 'Abd Allah b. 'Umayya appearing as an Arabic addition in the margin, typical of Arab-Sasanian transitional issues. |
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Abd Allah b. Umayya served as governor of Kirman under the Umayyad administration during the transitional period when Arab-Sasanian coinage was being systematically replaced by fully epigraphic Islamic issues — the reform completed under Abd al-Malik around 696–698. Coins struck in his name retain the Sasanian fire-altar and attendants on the reverse, a visual holdover the Umayyads tolerated briefly before the reformed purely Arabic type made such imagery obsolete and, effectively, illegal for official coinage.