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Drachm - Anonymous Experimental, Arab-Sasanian
| Issuer | Umayyad Caliphate |
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| Year | 690 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Sasanian-style bust of the ruler facing right, wearing a winged mural crown, rendered in the traditional late Sasanian artistic style. The bust is enclosed within two concentric circular borders, with three stars within crescents arranged in the margin. In the second quadrant before the portrait, the Arabic Basmala inscription bism Allah appears in Kufic script. Uniquely, the space normally occupied by the governor's name instead carries the Islamic profession of faith muhammad rasul Allah, identifying this as an experimental anonymous issue of significant religious and historical character. |
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| Obverse script | Arabic (Kufic) |
| Obverse lettering | محمد رسول الله ∴ بسم الله |
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