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Qandhari Dirham 'Damma' - Umar II bin Abdullah
| Issuer | Sind |
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| Year | 913-943 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | ND (913-943) |
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The "Qandhari" designation points to the Kandahar-influenced Arab-Sasanian monetary tradition that persisted in Sind long after the Abbasid caliphate had standardized coinage elsewhere. These fractional silver pieces — the damma being a subdivision of the dirham — circulated in a region where the Arab governors operated with considerable autonomy from Baghdad, maintaining local denominational conventions that the broader Islamic world had largely abandoned by the tenth century.