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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 3570133, member: 74834&quot;]After the first years of unity in Islam, the new religion, division set in fast and this resulted in conflicts that are still very severe nowadays: between Shiites and Sunnis. Shiites are adherents of Ali and they don&#039;t think at all Muawiya was a villain. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is arguably the first original islamic design, not based on Byzantine or Sasanian examples. It&#039;s from the first coinage reform of caliph Abd al-Malik (about 693-697 AD; the second provided us with the all-text dinars and dirhams in 699). For a long time I put off buying a Standing Caliph type (not having a belligerent character), but now I did. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]950602[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>On the left you see the caliph with a sword wearing an embroidered cloak. The reverse shows a pole with a circle on it on three steps, it is a parody of the Christian cross and shows that these coins were based on comparable Byzantine types. On <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=171166" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=171166" rel="nofollow">Zeno you can check</a> the Arabic text on the coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>AE fals Umayyads, Arab-Byzantine Standing Caliph Type. Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan 685-705. Halab (Aleppo) mint, prob. 693-697. 21 mm, 2.46 gr. Album 3529 (p. 37), SICA I, 615-625.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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