Drachm - Murad Eastern Sistan - Arab-Sasanian

Issued in the years immediately following the Abbasid revolution of 750, which overthrew the Umayyad dynasty and shifted the caliphate's center of power from Damascus to the east, these Sistan drachms reflect the transitional monetary reality of the new regime. The Abbasids inherited a provincial minting infrastructure that still ran on Sasanian-derived silver flans and Arab-Sasanian typology — the old forms persisted because the new administration needed immediate fiscal functionality, not numismatic reform.

Sistan, in what is now eastern Iran and southwestern Afghanistan, had been a restive frontier throughout Umayyad rule. The A#100.1 type is among the earlier attributions in the Abbasid Arab-Sasanian sequence before fully Arabicized coinage displaced these hybrid issues.