A guide to the Department of coins and medals in the British museum (1922)
British Museum. Dept. of Coins and Medals, Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London : The Trustees · leaf 85
nsion of the power and wealth of Islam in the middle of theseventh century a. d. that they struck coins. Their first gold andcopper (No. 1) coins were copied from contemporary Byzantinecoins, while their silver is modelled on that of Khusru II withthe addition of the word bismillah on the margin… … Pig. 44. Dirhem of Abd al-Malib. a. h. 85. a. d. 704. (drachma), and falus (follis) being borrowed from the Byzantines(Fig. 44). Although it is not expressly forbidden in the Koran,Muhammad had strongly disapproved of any form of image-making lest it should lead to idolatry. The Caliph was…
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