Administrative Reforms
‘From the coin reform on, all Umayyad coinage was of a standard weight and design.’
From the coin reform on, all Umayyad coinage was of a standardised weight and design: purely epigraphic, with an inscription giving the date and a religious formula. These measures served to introduce a unity which hitherto had been lacking.

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Coin (dirham)

Hegira 91 / AD 709
Umayyad; Caliph al-Walid I (r. AH 86–96 / AD 705–15)
Museum of Civilisations | Museum of Oriental Art "Giuseppe Tucci"
Rome, Italy
A silver dirham of the purely epigraphic type belonging to the period of al-Walid I (r. 86–96 / 705–15). Typically following the coin reform of 77 / 696–7, the religious inscriptions are in kufic script.