Drachm - Muqatil b. Misma' Arab-Sasanian

Muqatil b. Misma' served as governor of a Sasanian frontier district under Umayyad authority during the period when Arab administrators were still issuing coins that borrowed almost entirely from late Sasanian prototypes — fire altars, Middle Persian inscriptions, and regnal dating intact. This particular issue falls within the narrow transitional window just before Abd al-Malik's sweeping monetary reform of 696 CE, which abolished figural coinage across the caliphate and replaced it with purely epigraphic Islamic types. Once that reform took hold, Arab-Sasanian drachms ceased entirely.

Muqatil's issues are sparsely documented in the numismatic literature, and confirmed die studies remain incomplete.