The prohibition against "craven images" finally accepted by most Islamic dynasties (though not all at least up to the middle ages) meant that the coinage became a repository for Quranic verses. Here is a coin with Surah 2:255. "Allah, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsisting by Whom all subsist, there is no god but He.278 Neither slumber seizes Him, nor sleep;279 to Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth.280 Who is there who might intercede with Him save with His leave?281 He knows what lies before them and what is hidden from them, whereas they cannot attain to anything of His knowledge save what He wills them to attain.282 His Dominion283 overspreads the heavens and the earth, and their upholding wearies Him not. He is All-High, All-Glorious.284" Great Seljuk. Mu'izz al-Din Ahmad Sanjar. As viceroy under Muhammad, AH 492-511 / AD 1099-1118. AV Dinar (23mm, 2.92 g, 1h). Walwalij mint. Dated AH [49]7 or 9 (AD 1103/4 or 1105/6). Album 1685A
