Drachm - Samura b. Jundab Arab-Sasanian

Arab-Sasanian coinage of this period represents the Umayyad administration's pragmatic decision to keep Sasanian monetary forms alive rather than impose a new coinage on a population still adjusting to conquest. Samura b. Jundab served as governor of Basra under Muawiya I, a tenure marked by extraordinary brutality even by the standards of the era — early Islamic historians record his governorship as a byword for arbitrary execution.

The Val Sn#5 reference places this among the earliest attributable Arab-Sasanian issues with a named governor, before the Marwanid reforms of the 690s rendered the entire type obsolete.