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Drachm - Khalid b. 'Abd Allah Arab-Sasanian
| Issuer | Umayyad Caliphate |
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| Year | 692-694 |
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| Currency | Drachm (661-750) |
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| Obverse lettering | بسم الله / محمد رسول الله (KHALìTU ì APDULAAN in Pahlavi) |
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| Mint | Bishapur (BYSh) |
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Khalid b. 'Abd Allah served as governor of a eastern mint region during the early Umayyad consolidation, a period when Arab administrators were still striking coins that borrowed heavily from Sasanian prototypes rather than asserting a distinctly Islamic visual vocabulary. That shift came decisively with 'Abd al-Malik's currency reform of 696–698, which abolished figural types entirely. This piece predates that reform by just a few years, placing it in the narrow transitional window before Islamic coinage assumed its purely epigraphic form — a transformation that was as much a theological statement as an administrative one.