Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (27.8mm, 1.86 g, 11h). Tawwaj mint. Dated AH 82 (AD 701/2). Good Fine.

CNG Islamic Auction 3
Lot: 61. Estimated: $ 1 500

Umayyad Silver and Bronze, Silver

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Umayyad Caliphate, Silver coinage. AR Dirham (27.8mm, 1.86 g, 11h). Tawwaj mint. Dated AH 82 (AD 701/2). Klat 199; al-‘Ajlan p. 114, 13. Edge repaired between 12h and 3h on obverse. Good Fine. Extremely rare, only two specimens recorded by Klat.

One of the rarest mints for Umayyad dirhams, Tawwaj is another example of an Arab-Sasanian mint which was briefly revived during the first five years of the post-Reform silver coinage. Under the mint-signature TART, Tawwaj struck Arab-Sasanian drachms from the late 60s until AH 80, and while it was never prolific a number of these issues are not rare. There is no obvious explanation as to why it should have been reopened as a post-Reform mint in this year only to be closed almost immediately.

No further coins of Tawwaj are known before AH 132, when copper fulus were issued there.

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