An introduction to the study of ancient and modern coins (1848)
Akerman, John Yonge, 1806-1873 · London, J. R. Smith · leaf 126
Society, 1841, by M. de Long-perier*. On one side is //z the name of God was coinedthis dinar in the year one hundred and fifty seventyIn the centre,in three lines:—^•Mahommed is theapostle of God,^ between which is OFFA EEX.The reverse has ^^Mahomet is the apostle of God,ivho sent him icith the… … ■There is no god but the one God: he has no equal.Tlie reason why so strange a piece was mintedmust be left to conjecture. The most plausibleexplanation is, that the Arabic characters weremistaken by the Anglo-Saxon moneyer for mereornaments, and copied accordingly. Of Ecgberht, the son of OiFa,…
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