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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 5402653, member: 96898&quot;]Once more, it&#039;s Monday where I live!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an 8th century Umayyad dirham. If you are, like me, a historically interested medieval collector not specializing in Islamic coinage, this probably is one of the five to ten Islamic types you nonetheless want to have in your collection. Not only was this dirham minted during the first and arguably most important Islamic dynasty, it also represents a type of coin that widely circulating in early medieval Western Europe:</p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">[ATTACH=full]1233439[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">Umayyad Caliphate, under Hisham, AR dirham, 735/6 AD (117 AH), Wasit mint. Obv: beginning of kalima, mint-date-formula around. Rev: Surah 112 and IX, 33. 30mm, 2.91g. Ref: Album 137.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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