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Drachm - Samura b. Jundab Arab-Sasanian
| Issuer | Umayyad Caliphate |
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| Year | 666-674 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Pahlavi/Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Arab-Sasanian coinage of this period represents the Umayyad administration's pragmatic decision to keep Sasanian monetary forms alive rather than impose a new coinage on a population still adjusting to conquest. Samura b. Jundab served as governor of Basra under Muawiya I, a tenure marked by extraordinary brutality even by the standards of the era — early Islamic historians record his governorship as a byword for arbitrary execution.
The Val Sn#5 reference places this among the earliest attributable Arab-Sasanian issues with a named governor, before the Marwanid reforms of the 690s rendered the entire type obsolete.