The Qandhari dirham type — named for Qandahar, the region from which the module derives — circulated across Sind during a period of fragmented Abbasid authority, when local governors increasingly struck in their own right with minimal acknowledgment of the caliphate. At under half a gram, these fractional pieces served petty transactions that full dirhams could not practically accommodate.
'Abd Allah II's issues are sparsely documented outside specialist die studies on Zeno's database.
The Qandhari dirham type — named for Qandahar, the region from which the module derives — circulated across Sind during a period of fragmented Abbasid authority, when local governors increasingly struck in their own right with minimal acknowledgment of the caliphate. At under half a gram, these fractional pieces served petty transactions that full dirhams could not practically accommodate.
'Abd Allah II's issues are sparsely documented outside specialist die studies on Zeno's database.