Drachm - Anonymous Experimental, Arab-Sasanian

The late 680s and early 690s saw the Umayyad administration experimenting with coinage reform ahead of the sweeping monetary overhaul ordered by Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. These transitional issues — retaining Sasanian drachm conventions while introducing Arabic religious inscriptions — were part of a broader effort to assert caliphal authority over a monetary system still running largely on pre-Islamic Iranian prototypes nearly six decades after the conquest. Album 34F sits within that experimental window, before the fully reformed fals and dirham types displaced the hybrid series entirely around 696–698.