Umayyad, Hisham, silver dirham, al-Bab mint, AH 119

Umayyad: Hisham (724-743), silver dirham (2.87g), al-Bab (Derbent, Dagestan) mint, AH 119 (737 CE). Attractive example. Al-Bab is the short form of Bab al-Abwab ("the Gate of Gates"), the name the Arabs used to refer to Derbent after its conquest.