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Qanhari Dirham 'Damma' - Abu Yusuf
| Issuer | Sind |
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| Year | 1005-1040 |
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| Value | Damma (⅙) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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The Qanhari dirham series belongs to the post-Brahmanabad administrative zone of Sind, where Arab governors maintained a debased local silver coinage long after the Umayyad conquest had nominally unified the region's monetary output with the broader caliphate. By the early eleventh century, actual Abbasid authority over Sind had collapsed entirely, leaving local rulers issuing coins under their own names while retaining Arabized titular conventions. Abu Yusuf operated within this fragmented political reality. The damma denomination itself derives from the Sanskrit *drama*, a telling linguistic survival of pre-Islamic Sindhi monetary vocabulary.