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Drachm - Humran b. Aban Arab-Sasanian
| Issuer | Umayyad Caliphate |
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| Year | 692 |
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| Weight | 2.58 g |
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| Obverse description | Bust of the Sasanian king facing right in high relief, rendered in the late Sasanian artistic tradition, wearing an elaborate winged crown with a crescent and globes surmounted by a korymbos. The effigy is encircled by a beaded border with concentric ring ornaments in the field. Arabic inscriptions appear in the marginal legend flanking the bust, replacing or supplementing the original Pahlavi legends characteristic of Arab-Sasanian coinage. |
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| Mintage | 72 (692) |
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Humran b. Aban served as governor of Kirman under the early Umayyad administration, and this drachm belongs to the transitional Arab-Sasanian series produced before Abd al-Malik's sweeping monetary reform of 696 AD replaced figurative Sasanian-derived coinage with purely epigraphic Islamic types. The four-year window between 692 and that reform is narrow, making dated issues from provincial governors like Humran genuinely scarce relative to the better-documented mint output of major centers.
The light weight against the Sasanian drachm standard reflects ongoing silver debasement in the post-conquest provincial mints.