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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ardatirion, post: 2235695, member: 9204&quot;]I&#039;m surprised that no one has commented on the most interesting aspect of this coin. Tabaristan was an outlying province of the Umayyad Empire that was allowed to strike this local coinage of hemidrachms based on the old Sassanian style, which the Umayyads themselves copied for their eastern silver coinage until the reform under al-Malik. The individuals named on this series are the local governors. Sulayman was apparently a more dedicated Muslim than the others, and he took the &quot;graven images&quot; thing very seriously, transforming the pagan king on the obverse into a neat geometric type.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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