Qom as a Minting Center During the Sasanian and Islamic Periods From the Reign of Queen Boran (629–631 CE / 8–10 AH) to the Early Fourth Century AH (310 AH / 922 CE)

Abstract

Available numismatic evidence suggests that Qom functioned as a minting center before the Islamic conquest. The continuity of coin production after the conquest may indicate the survival of administrative and economic structures inherited from the Sasanian period., proving that its post-conquest economic prominence was a continuation of a legacy that exists and continues rather than a newly engineered Islamic innovation.

  Before the advent of the Islamic conquest, Qom had already established itself as a leading mint. The city’s institutional minting capacity and administrative infrastructure were deeply rooted in Sasanian governance, proving that its post-conquest economic prominence was a continuation of a legacy that exists and continues rather than a newly engineered Islamic innovation.( Al-Qumi, 378 AH)

  Long-term sustainability of the Qom mint relied on a unique gathering of geographic and environmental assets. Chief among these were the neighboring gold and silver deposits, supplemented by localized agricultural resilience via intricate irrigation networks and the city’s anchoring role along major transcontinental commerce routes.( Le Strange, 1905)

The migration of the Ash'ari family, descendants of Abu Musa al-Ash'ari, was a political and historical turning point in the city of Qom.

    Qom’s demographic and spatial consolidation from seven dispersed agrarian settlements into a fortified Islamic 

    The Abbasid era (Dinar of al-Muqtadir, 310 AH): Currency transitioned to a purely Islamic space, free from human figures, and adopted the developed geometric Kufic script. The inscribed words transformed from a general religious slogan into a "political and dynastic document" reflecting the legitimacy of the Abbasids as caliphs and heirs (such as the inclusion of the name of Abu al-Abbas ibn al-Muqtadir, al-Radi.