Abd al-Malik's Coinage Reforms : the Role of the Damascus Mint

Abstract

A review of the history and historiography of precious metal coins issued by the caliphal mint of Damascus (72-79 ah) suggests that the caliph's administrators abandoned figurai coinage in favour of epigraphic coinage at the end of the eighth century as the final stage of a series of monetary experiments which aimed to create a universal Islamic coinage type, that would be accepted in all regions of the Umayyad state, including Iran as well as Greater Syria.

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