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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 3280934, member: 87200&quot;]In the early days of the Umayyads the &quot;standing caliph&quot; type was common based somewhat on Byzantine coinage. However, soon iconography and graven images were prohibited so that we get the phrase in script &quot;There is no God but God, and Muhammad is his messenger&quot; amongst other phrases. It&#039;s kind of an interesting proscription because one of the hadiths states that there are 99 faces of god. (Allah)</p><p><br /></p><p>This may be a hearkening back to the days of polytheism in the Arabian peninsula. Anyway, today&#039;s Sunni Islam rejects this notion for the most part, especially amongst the more devout groups of militant Islam.</p><p><br /></p><p>Surah 30 (Ar-Rum) discusses the fall of the Byzantines but also the defeat of the Persians by the Byzantines under Heraclius.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.noblequran.com/translation/surah30.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.noblequran.com/translation/surah30.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.noblequran.com/translation/surah30.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway the OP coin is pretty cool and somewhat deviates from the standard proscription.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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