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§ - CALIFAT OMEYYADE (661-750)
SILVER DIRHAM
Struck in Dhamar in 98H.
This exceptional umayyad dirham, which mentions the city of Dhamar in Yemen as a workshop, opens new perspectives on the economic and political history of the Arabian Peninsula in the umayyad period. Indeed, research considers that the first Yemeni monetary issues of the Islamic period date only from the middle of the 2nd / 8th century for silver dirhams, and from the end of this century for gold dinars. Monetary circulation in Yemen prior to these issues, and particularly in the Ummayyad period, has remained largely mysterious to this day. The apparent unicum presented here, struck at Dhamar in 98/716 during the reign of the Umayyad Sulayman b. 'Abd al-Malik, thus represents an extraordinary witness to a phenomenon of monetary issuance that had not been documented for first-century Hegira Yemen until now.
Provenance :
French private collection of Mr. M.
SILVER DIRHAM
Struck in Dhamar in 98H.
This exceptional umayyad dirham, which mentions the city of Dhamar in Yemen as a workshop, opens new perspectives on the economic and political history of the Arabian Peninsula in the umayyad period. Indeed, research considers that the first Yemeni monetary issues of the Islamic period date only from the middle of the 2nd / 8th century for silver dirhams, and from the end of this century for gold dinars. Monetary circulation in Yemen prior to these issues, and particularly in the Ummayyad period, has remained largely mysterious to this day. The apparent unicum presented here, struck at Dhamar in 98/716 during the reign of the Umayyad Sulayman b. 'Abd al-Malik, thus represents an extraordinary witness to a phenomenon of monetary issuance that had not been documented for first-century Hegira Yemen until now.
Provenance :
French private collection of Mr. M.