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Drachm - Anonymous - Khusraw II type Arab-Sasanian
| Issuer | Umayyad Caliphate |
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| Year | 666-670 |
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| Currency | Drachm (661-750) |
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| Obverse description | Bust of Khusraw II facing right in Sasanian style, wearing a winged and crescent-topped crown with distinctive korymbos hair arrangement, depicted with characteristic diadem ribbons. The effigy is rendered in low relief with a beaded border encircling the design, typical of late Sasanian coinage adopted by early Arab-Sasanian issues. The portrait retains the stylized physiognomy of the Sasanian royal type, with a beaded inner border and an outer crescents-and-pellets border. |
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| Obverse script | Pahlavi |
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These early Arab-Sasanian issues were struck in the immediate aftermath of the Islamic conquest of Persia, with Arab governors retaining the existing Sasanian monetary infrastructure almost wholesale. The Khusraw II bust type was preserved not out of aesthetic deference but practical necessity — the local population recognized it, and trade required continuity. No caliph's name appears; authority was implied through control of the mint, not inscription.
The anonymous character of this type makes precise attribution difficult, as multiple governors across different former Sasanian mints struck nearly identical coins during this window.