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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Loong Siew, post: 2250060, member: 75799&quot;]You have a great coin and the Arabic legends definitely point to Arab Byzantine origins as well as the overall look. What I gathered was early Islamic coinage used existing designs for convenience as a strong systemized government machinery such as coinage was still not reformed yet. They did not place too much emphasis on the Christian iconography too much until they started to get sensitive of it and establishing rigid indoctrination of their laws such as forbidding the display of imagery on coins. I think the Arabic text refers to the Tayyib which means &quot;Good&quot; ..&nbsp; SICA 542 from wild winds looks very very close if not the same as your coin</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/byz/Imitative/t.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/byz/Imitative/t.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/byz/Imitative/t.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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