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Umayyad Caliphate, Ibn al-Ash'ath ('Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad) AR Drachm. Arab-Sasanian type. SK (Sīstān) mint, AH 81 = AD 700/1. Draped bust resembling Khosrau II to right, wearing elaborate mural crown; bismillah and rabbi in Arabic in outer margin / Fire altar with ribbons flanked by two attendants; star and crescent across upper fields. Malek, Arab-Sasanian 1044-47 var. (no pellets before rabbi); Album 38A; SICA I, 371 var. (date). 3.89g, 31mm, 3h.
Good Extremely Fine.
Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 480, 11 November 2020, lot 747.
Ibn al-Ash'ath led an unsuccessful revolt against al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, the Umayyad governor of Iraq, cf. H. Kennedy, The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the 6th to the 11th Century (2004), P. 101-2.
Good Extremely Fine.
Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 480, 11 November 2020, lot 747.
Ibn al-Ash'ath led an unsuccessful revolt against al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, the Umayyad governor of Iraq, cf. H. Kennedy, The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the 6th to the 11th Century (2004), P. 101-2.