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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dltsrq, post: 4853784, member: 75482&quot;]It&#039;s not that Islam prohibits graven images <i>on coins</i> but that graven images are prohibited altogether in fundamentalist Islam. Some have suggested that since the Turks were relatively recently arrived from the east, they were not yet fully Islamicized. Others attribute these figural coins to the influence of Nestorian Christians among the Turks. The variety is fascinating, ranging from classical prototypes to the completely novel.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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