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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2489692, member: 76194&quot;]Sorry for all the Islamic&nbsp; numismatics overload lately. If I&#039;ve bored you, please accept my apologies.</p><p><br /></p><p>These two definitely deserve to be displayed together:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Coin #1 </b>is when the Umayyad dynasty was at the height of it&#039;s power and preeminence, and masters of the whole Middle East, Persia, North Africa, Northern India, and Iberia (Spain). Basically, they controlled the entire Muslim world.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Coin #2</b> is from a time where the Umayyad dynasty had lost everything, and only controlled 2/3 of Iberia and one or two tiny spits of land in North Africa, and was nearing the collapse of the dynasty.</p><p><br /></p><p>So one coin reminds us of what it is to be great, and the other that <b>all greatness is fleeting, and nothing lasts forever!</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]526768[/ATTACH]</p><p>Umayyad Caliphate</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]526770[/ATTACH]</p><p>Umayyads of Spain (Caliphate of Cordoba)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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