Umayyad Dirham (Minted in Sijistan, 94 AH) – Reign of al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik
<p>Sijistan lies at the far eastern edge of Iran, one of the distant frontier provinces the Umayyad caliphate extended its authority over in the early decades of the conquest.</p><p>This dirham was struck in 94 AH from a distant land witnessing gradual administrative stability under Al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik.</p><p>The coin attests to the strategic success in folding remote eastern provinces into the unified economic network, providing stable liquidity along the borders of Central Asia.</p>
94 AH