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Drachm - Anonymous - Khusraw II type Arab-Sasanian
| Issuer | Umayyad Caliphate |
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| Year | 666-670 |
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| Weight | 3.48 g |
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| Obverse description | Bust of Khusraw II facing right in Sasanian style, wearing a winged and crescent-topped crown with distinctive korymbos hair arrangement, depicted with characteristic diadem ribbons. The effigy is rendered in low relief with a beaded border encircling the design, typical of late Sasanian coinage adopted by early Arab-Sasanian issues. The portrait retains the stylized physiognomy of the Sasanian royal type, with a beaded inner border and an outer crescents-and-pellets border. |
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| Reverse description | Central fire altar flanked by two attendants standing facing inward, each bearing a staff or sword, rendered in the standard Sasanian fire-altar design inherited by Arab-Sasanian coinage. The altar is depicted with flames rising from the top and is set between the two figures on a stepped base. The scene is enclosed within multiple concentric beaded and linear borders, with marginal Pahlavi inscriptions in the outer fields denoting the mint and regnal year. |
| Reverse script | Pahlavi |
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