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<p>[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 4595149, member: 87200"]I find it interesting after defeating the Byzantines at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Yarmouk" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Yarmouk" rel="nofollow">Battle of the Yarmuk River</a> that the Arabs would strike coins resembling that of their defeated enemies. Indeed, the same thing happened with Arab-Sassanian coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>In fact, it was not until 691 that coins <a href="http://www.quranfocus.com/knowledge/kalimas" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.quranfocus.com/knowledge/kalimas" rel="nofollow">featuring the kalima</a> were struck, under the Umayyad caliphate. During the interim, Byzantine coins continued to circulate, as well as the Arab-Byzantine issues in the East and Arab-Sassanian coins in Persia.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't own an example of any of these coins yet but I'm thinking of picking up some. Nice find [USER=15481]@svessien[/USER] ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 4595149, member: 87200"]I find it interesting after defeating the Byzantines at the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Yarmouk']Battle of the Yarmuk River[/URL] that the Arabs would strike coins resembling that of their defeated enemies. Indeed, the same thing happened with Arab-Sassanian coins. In fact, it was not until 691 that coins [URL='http://www.quranfocus.com/knowledge/kalimas']featuring the kalima[/URL] were struck, under the Umayyad caliphate. During the interim, Byzantine coins continued to circulate, as well as the Arab-Byzantine issues in the East and Arab-Sassanian coins in Persia. I don't own an example of any of these coins yet but I'm thinking of picking up some. Nice find [USER=15481]@svessien[/USER] ![/QUOTE]
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