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ARAB-SASANIAN: 'Abd al-Malik b. Abi Shay(kh), fl. 692, AR drachm (2.68g), APRShT (Abarshahr, = Nisha

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ARAB-SASANIAN: 'Abd al-Malik b. Abi Shay(kh), fl. 692, AR drachm (2.68g), APRShT (Abarshahr, = Nisha
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ARAB-SASANIAN: 'Abd al-Malik b. Abi Shay(kh), fl. 692, AR drachm (2.68g), APRShT (Abarshahr, = Nishapur)), AH72, A-29, clipped down to slightly below the post-reform Umayyad standard, clear name, mint & date, stylistically identical to the first known example (sold in our Auction 17, lot 104, back in 2013, now Zeno-128271) but struck from a different pair of dies, VF, RRRR. This is the second known example of this governor, struck during the chaotic years in the early AH70s, when the collapse of the Zubayrid opposition and the petty rivalry in Khorasan and Sijistan after the brief Hephthalite invasions simultaneously troubled the eastern regions of the caliphate. The named governor is perhaps 'Abd al-Malik b. Abi Shaykh al-Qurayshi, who was active in the Kish battle in Central Asia in AH80.