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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrsmat71, post: 2741341, member: 42634&quot;]that&#039;s a cool little islamic coin!&nbsp; doesn&#039;t seem like you see pentagrams much on these?&nbsp; modern islamic coins from&nbsp; morroco come to mind...i&#039;m sure there are others. </p><p><br /></p><p>i don&#039;t have many 8th century coins either, here&#039;s one early islamic i have from that era...</p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/eastern%20coins/firealtar_zps751593b0.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/eastern%20coins/firealtar_zps751593b0.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/eastern%20coins/firealtar_zps751593b0.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6">Arab Bukhara, Abassid Caliph Al-Mahdi, 775-785 AD. Billon drachm.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>O: Bust right, Arabic legend behind (Al-Madhi), Sogdian legend before. R: Fire altar, head right. 26 mm, 2.5 g </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>remember several years ago we did a &quot;coins by century&quot; thread?&nbsp; maybe it would be fun to do one of those again?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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