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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 26084100, member: 81887&quot;][USER=10461]@lordmarcovan[/USER] : An excellent question!&nbsp; There are pictorial issues scattered throughout Islamic coinage, but they tend to be concentrated in certain specific places and times.&nbsp; Once the &quot;reformed&quot; (text-only) coinage started in the early 700s, imagery on gold and silver died out very quickly in the Arab heartland of the Umayyad Caliphate, though it persisted for a while in the Central Asian edges for silver coins, and many Umayyad bronzes have animals.&nbsp; Then imagery pretty much dies out until the arrival of Turkic Muslims, with the Seljuk Turks and the Turkoman Atabegs (including the well-known Artuqids and Zengids plus the more obscure Lu&#039;lu&#039;ids, Danishmendids, etc.).&nbsp; We also see many pictorial issues among the Ilkhans (Mongols of Persia) like the OP coin, and later, in the &quot;civic coppers&quot; issued fairly independently by cities in Persia and Afghanistan.&nbsp; The two keys to the later pictorial issues are: 1 usually on copper/bronze rather than precious metals, and 2. usually not in Arab areas.&nbsp; I might be able to develop a coherent thesis of the exact cultural differences that led to this, if someone gives me a research grant first.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Hope this brief note helps.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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