Arab–Sasanian coinage explained

Arab–Sasanian coinage is a modern term used to describe Islamic coinage struck in the style of the coinage of the Iranian Sasanian Empire (224–651) after the Muslim conquest of Persia, on behalf of the Muslim governors of the early Islamic caliphates (7th–8th centuries). These coins, mostly silver dirhams but also copper coins, were struck in the historic Sasanian lands of Iraq and Iran, and continued to show the portrait of a bust of a Sasanian emperor as well as other non-Islamic motifs of Sasanian coins, alongside Arabic inscriptions.^[1]

See also

• Indo-Sasanian coinage
• Sasanian coinage of Sindh

Literature

• • Book: Giselen, Ryka . Arab-Sasanian Copper Coinage . 2009 . 978-3-7001-2893-9 . Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften . Vienna.
• Book: Malek, Hodge Mehdi . Arab-Sasanian Numismatics and History during the Early Islamic Period in Iran and Iraq (2 vols) . Royal Numismatic Society . 2019 . 978-0-901405-94-4.
• Nikitin . Alexander . Roth . Gunter . The Earliest Arab-Sasanian Coins . The Numismatic Chronicle. 155 . Royal Numismatic Society . 1995 . 131–137 . 42668792.

Notes and References

1. Fekripour. Katayoun. Sharifian. Fariba. 2020. A Historical Analysis of Three Arab-Sassanid Coins of Bišāpur (First Century AH). Journal of Historical Researches. 12. 1. 23. 10.22108/jhr.2020.121331.1924.