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

Issuer Umayyad Caliphate
Year 694-697
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Technique Hammered
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Reverse script Pahlavi/Arabic
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Mintage ND (694-697)
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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.

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