The emergence of Islamic coinage

The first Islamic gold coinage: the solidus.Byzantine Solidus.226a) Umayyad Dynasty. Arab-Byzantine solidus ca AH 60-72 (679-691).Courtesy Numismatica Genevensis SAStory by Nick Leech.

Nov 13, 2014

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