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Drachm - Yazid b. al-Muhallab Umayyad Governors of Khurasan - Arab-Sasanian
| Issuer | Umayyad Caliphate |
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| Year | 697-698 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Pahlavi |
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| Reverse script | Pahlavi/Arabic |
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Yazid ibn al-Muhallab governed Khurasan twice — this issue dates to his first tenure, shortly after his father al-Muhallab ibn Abi Suffra had pacified the region following years of Kharijite rebellion. The Arab-Sasanian series to which this drachm belongs was a deliberate transitional coinage, retaining Sasanian iconographic conventions while inserting Arabic marginalia, a pragmatic accommodation to a population still accustomed to the old monetary forms. Yazid was later executed in 720 after leading a major revolt against Caliph Yazid II — one of the most serious challenges to Umayyad authority in the east.