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Qanhari Dirham 'Damma' - Mansur ibn Jumhur al-Kalbi
| Issuer | Sind |
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| Year | 747-751 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له |
| Reverse description | Crudely impressed field bearing a stylized device that appears derived from a palm-tree or vegetal motif, rendered in bold, highly abstracted strokes radiating upward from a central point, a characteristic decorative element of the Qanhari coinage of Sind. Below the central device, the governor's name and title appear in schematic Kufic script arranged in horizontal registers, identifying the issuing authority as Mansur ibn Jumhur. The flan is irregular and the strike off-center, with portions of the legend weak or missing at the edges, typical of this crudely produced fractional series. |
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Mansur ibn Jumhur al-Kalbi governed Sind as an Umayyad appointee during a period of acute dynastic instability — his tenure overlapping almost exactly with the Abbasid revolution that destroyed the Umayyad caliphate in 750. Whether these fractional silver pieces continued striking after the Abbasid takeover, or were abandoned with the regime that authorized them, remains an open question in the numismatic record.
The "cf." qualifier against Album 1493 reflects genuine uncertainty: no clean type match has been established, and attribution rests on stylistic and regional inference rather than confirmed die correspondence.