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Qanhari Dirham 'Damma' - Bishr ibn Da'ud al-Muhallabi
| Issuer | Sind |
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| Year | 820-826 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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Bishr ibn Da'ud al-Muhallabi governed Sind as an Abbasid appointee during a period when central caliphal authority over the subcontinent was increasingly nominal. The damma — a fractional unit peculiar to Sind's local monetary practice — reflects the hybrid economic reality of the frontier: Abbasid administrative overlay on a regional weight system that owed little to Baghdad. At under 0.6 grams, these fractions circulated in markets where the full dirham was too large a unit for everyday transaction. Survivorship is poor precisely because they were used hard.