Pre-reform issues, Arab-Sasanian. Abdallah b. Khazim. Circa AH 62-72 / AD 682-692. AR Drachm (32.4mm, 3.88 g, 3h). BBA (the court or camp mint). Dated AH 67 (AD 686/7). Obverse margin: - / bismillah ∵/ ∵ - / - / Countermarks 51 (Varhran) and 47 Marw Rud in first and fourth quadrants respectively. Malek, Arab-Sasanian 143 (without countermarks); SICA 1, p. 23, note 123; Album 19. Near VF. It is very unusual for a coin struck elsewhere than Marw al-Rudh to bear the Marw Rud countermark
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