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Pre-reform issues, Eastern Sistan. Anonymous. Circa AH 60s-80s / AD 680s-700s. AR Dirham (32.3mm, 3.77 g, 8h). SK (Sistan) mint. Blundered date. Obverse margin: DWM - bismillah - rabbi. Malek, Arab-Sasanian 962 (same obverse die); Album 75. Good VF.
The date on these drachms with DWM in the obverse margin is invariably poorly engraved. Malek suggests that it is a blundered version of AH 43, while arguing on stylistic grounds that the coins themselves were struck some decades later ('no earlier than the 60s' [p. 201, note 534] or 'unlikely...before the late 70s H' [p. 588, note 77]).
The date on these drachms with DWM in the obverse margin is invariably poorly engraved. Malek suggests that it is a blundered version of AH 43, while arguing on stylistic grounds that the coins themselves were struck some decades later ('no earlier than the 60s' [p. 201, note 534] or 'unlikely...before the late 70s H' [p. 588, note 77]).