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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 2963976, member: 81887&quot;]Islamic coinage is a vast collecting area, covering a huge number of dynasties, kingdoms, and miscellaneous coin-issuing entities, spread out over several continents and many centuries.&nbsp; Here&#039;s just a few examples from my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Two Arab-Sasanian coins: These coins from early in the Muslim era closely copy the designs of Sasanian coins, but with added inscriptions in Arabic.&nbsp; First, a silver drachm, issued by the governor &#039;Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad in AH 62 (681/2 AD) in the city of Basra in what is now Iraq:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]725957[/ATTACH]</p><p>And an anonymous and undated AE pashiz, c. 690-710 AD, from Bishapur, Iran:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]725963[/ATTACH]</p><p>A major reform of the coinage started in AH 77 (696 AD) which introduced standardized designs consisting mainly of inscriptions in Arabic.&nbsp; Here is an early post-reform AE fals of the Umayyad caliphate, struck in Aleppo, Syria:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]725967[/ATTACH]</p><p>An AE fals of the Samanids, dated 356 AH (9678 AD), struck in the Silk Road city of Bukhara in what is now Uzbekistan:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]725969[/ATTACH]</p><p>And finally an AE dirham of the Pishkinids, a minor dynasty that was centered in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran.&nbsp; Their territory included productive copper mines, and their copper coins are large and often on irregular flans.&nbsp; This was struck by Mahmud ibn Pishkin II (1212-1226 AD) in Ahar, Iran:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]725988[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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