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Sasanian and early Islamic eastern drahm–dirham reckoning
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Attic drachma accounting Sasanian and early Islamic eastern drahm–dirham reckoning
Evidence period: 330 BC–AD 579QualifiedEarlier ancestry; intervening stages remain openA span of evidence, not an exact foundation date.
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Pratihara / Siyadoni dramma accountingEvidence period: AD 450–AD 913QualifiedEarlier ancestry; intervening stages remain openA span of evidence, not an exact foundation date.
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Sasanian and early Islamic eastern drahm–dirham reckoning Pratihara / Siyadoni dramma accounting
Evidence period: AD 450–AD 913QualifiedEarlier ancestry; intervening stages remain openA span of evidence, not an exact foundation date.
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