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Drachm - al-Hajjaj b. Yusuf Merw mint - Umayyad Governors of Iraq - Arab-Sasanian
| Issuer | Umayyad Caliphate |
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| Year | 696-714 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Arabic/Pahlavi |
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| Reverse script | Arabic/Pahlavi |
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Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf al-Thaqafi governed Iraq and the eastern provinces with a reputation for ruthlessness that was, by most accounts, well-earned — he crushed two major rebellions and executed tens of thousands during his tenure. His administration oversaw the critical transition from Sasanian-derived coinage to the purely epigraphic reformed dirham mandated by Abd al-Malik's monetary reforms of 696 CE, making issues from his mints a documentary record of that shift. Merw, deep in Khurasan, was among the last eastern mints to complete the transition, and bilingual transitional types from this governorship remain notoriously difficult to attribute with precision.