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Drachm - Talha b. 'Abd Allah Arab-Sasanian
| Issuer | Umayyad Caliphate |
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| Year | 683-685 |
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| Weight | 4.08 g |
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| Obverse lettering | APZWT TLH بسم الله |
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| Mintage | ND (683-685) |
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Talha b. 'Abd Allah al-Khuza'i served as governor of Sijistan during one of the most unstable periods in early Islamic history — the second fitna, the civil war that fractured the Umayyad state following the death of Yazid I in 683. These drachms were struck in a provincial tradition inherited almost wholesale from Sasanian practice, the Arab administration initially lacking both the infrastructure and perhaps the inclination to replace a monetary system the population already trusted.
Album 14 places this squarely in the Arab-Sasanian transitional sequence before the Marwanid monetary reforms of 696–698 AD standardized Islamic coinage and rendered the entire bilingual Pahlavi-Arabic drachm tradition obsolete within a generation.