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Drachm - Qatari b. al-Fuja'a Arab-Sasanian
| Issuer | Umayyad Caliphate |
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| Year | 688-698 |
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| Value | Drachm (1) |
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| Obverse description | Bust of the Sasanian king facing right in the style of Khusro II, depicted with an elaborate winged crown surmounted by a crescent and globe, set within two concentric beaded borders. The effigy displays the characteristic Sasanian royal diadem with flowing ribbons, and the face is rendered in fine relief with stylized features typical of Arab-Sasanian coinage. Flanking the bust in the outer fields are small crescent symbols at the three and nine o'clock positions. A Pahlavi or Arabic marginal legend encircles the portrait within the border, identifying the issuer Qatari b. al-Fuja'a, a Kharijite rebel leader who struck coinage in imitation of late Sasanian types. |
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| Reverse description | Central fire altar with attendants standing on either side, rendered in the traditional Sasanian style with the flames rising from the altar platform. The two attendants face inward toward the altar, each holding a staff or spear, following the iconographic convention established under the late Sasanian dynasty. Concentric beaded borders surround the central design. A marginal legend in Pahlavi script appears in the outer border, and Arabic inscriptions or mint and date notations are placed in the lateral fields, consistent with Arab-Sasanian transitional coinage of the late seventh century. |
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Qatari b. al-Fuja'a was the Kharijite leader who controlled much of the Persian heartland during the Second Muslim Civil War, and coins struck in his name represent one of the few instances where a rebel faction produced a sustained silver coinage in direct competition with Umayyad authority. His decade-long control of Fars and Kirman gave him access to functioning Sasanian-derived mint infrastructure, which his administration used without fundamental alteration — the weight standard and fabric closely follow the late Sasanian model.
He died in battle in 698, and the coinage ceased with him.