'Abbasid Revolution. Anonymous. Dirham (Silver, 26 mm, 2.32 g, 6 h), temp. ʿAbd Allah ibn Muʿawiya, Istakhr, AH 128 = AD 745/6. Within a central circle, ‘lā ilāha illā / Allāh waḥdahū lā / sharīka lahū’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him’ in Arabic); in the inner margin, ‘qul lā asʾalukum ʿalayhi ajran illā al-mawaddata fī al-qurbā’ (‘Say: I do not ask of you any reward for it but love for my relatives’ in Arabic; Qurʾān 42: 23); in the outer margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-dirham bi Iṣṭakhr sana thamān wa ʿishrīn wa miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This dirham was struck in Istakhr in the year 128’ in Arabic). Rev. Within a circle, ‘Allāh aḥad Allāh / al-ṣamad lam yalid wa / lam yūlad wa lam yakun / lahū kufuwan aḥad’ (‘Allah is One, Allah is Absolute, He begets not, nor is He begotten, and none is like Him’ in Arabic; Qurʾān 112: 1-4); in the margin, ‘Muḥammad rasūl Allāh arsalahū bi al-hudā wa dīn al-ḥaqq liyuẓhirahū ʿalā al-dīn kullih wa law kariha al-mushrikūn’ (‘Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. He sent him with guidance and the religion of truth, so that He may make it overcome all religions, even though the unbelievers may dislike it’ in Arabic). Album 206.1. Rare. Crystallized and with edge chipping, otherwise, very fine.