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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1308576, member: 26302&quot;]Not a bad summary sir but I disagree with Islamic coins being one of the founding types of coins. It is generally recognized there were three areas in which coins originated, the other three you list. Islamic coins are complete cooptations of Sassanid and Byzantine prototypes. Their fabric remained identical to these source coins for centuries. Islam is not a source of ancient coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Greek coinage set the style of coinage for all of Europe, north Africa, and the middle east, this style continues to the modern day. China set it for all of the far east, setting the style of coinage for 2500 years. India brought about an amalgam of ideas from these two sources along with their own ideas. All other cultures in history borrowed from these three great coin pioneering areas.</p><p><br /></p><p>CHris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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