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Fals - al-Dahhak b. Qays Revolutionary period - Abbasid Revolution
| Issuer | Umayyad Caliphate |
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| Year | 746-748 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | ND (746-748) - - ND (746-748) - al-Mawsil - |
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Al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Shaybani led the Kharijite Haruriyya revolt in the Jazira and northern Iraq beginning in 745, briefly controlling Kufa and pressing as far as Mosul before being killed at the Battle of Kafartuta in 746. Coins struck in his name occupy a narrow, chaotic window — the same years the Abbasid da'wa was accelerating in Khurasan, meaning multiple simultaneous challenges to Marwanid authority were producing their own emergency copper issues almost concurrently.
Surviving falus from this revolt are rare precisely because the administration behind them collapsed so quickly.