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<p>[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 4501066, member: 87200"]One wonders sometimes about the Arab-Byzantine fals. Why would they strike a copy of a ruler from one hundred years earlier? I surmise that the coinage was so widely accepted that they had no choice, and even used "graven images" on their coins to make sure they were accepted. I suppose the switch to silver when Arab-Sassanian issues were made enabled the widely accepted dirhem of the next period of Islamic history, when iconography disappeared in favor of the kalama.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 4501066, member: 87200"]One wonders sometimes about the Arab-Byzantine fals. Why would they strike a copy of a ruler from one hundred years earlier? I surmise that the coinage was so widely accepted that they had no choice, and even used "graven images" on their coins to make sure they were accepted. I suppose the switch to silver when Arab-Sassanian issues were made enabled the widely accepted dirhem of the next period of Islamic history, when iconography disappeared in favor of the kalama.[/QUOTE]
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