Title: Silver Dirham (Arab Sasanian Type)
Date: dated: 57 AH (676–7 AD)
Location: mint: Basra
Dimensions: 3.87g; 32mm
Accession Number: AR 7
Other Notes:
Obverse: Sasanian bust facing right; to right downwards, a legend in Pehlevi, awbytala y-zyyatan (‘Ubayd Allah bin Ziyad); to left downwards: afzut/ gdh (‘may kingship increase’); marginal inscription beginning at 4:00, clockwise: bism Allah followed by three points.
Reverse: fire altar flanked by two attendants with the date hftpnja downwards to left and the mint name bjra downwards to right.
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