Asset ID:
6217
CMS Object ID:
739192
Accession Number:
HCR7446
Title:
Islamic Coin
Object Name:
coin
Obverse design (coins):
Arabic inscription in field (shahāda), point between the second and third lines of field inscription, Arabic inscription anti-clockwise in margin from 3h (Sura 9: v. 33 (in part)), all enclosed by beaded circle
Denomination (coins):
Dinar
Associated person(s) + dates:
‘Abd al-Malik (685-705) (ruler)
Object dating:
AD 700 - 701
Associated place(s):
Dimashq (mint)
Dimensions:
30 mm (diameter) ; 4.24 g (weight) ; 2 o'clock (die-axis)
Materials/ techniques:
gold
Responsible department:
Heberden Coin Room
Single/ multiple object:
Single
Asset copyright notice:
© Ashmolean Museum
Key words:
- abd
- ad
- ah
- al-malik
- anic
- appearance
- belief
- caliph
- coin
- coinage
- coins
- decorated
- decoration
- dimashq
- dinar
- distinctive
- early
- epigraphic
- figurative
- god
- gold
- history
- inscriptions
- islam
- islamic
- moment
- motifs
- muhammad
- passages
- place
- prophet
- qur
- range
- reforms
- ruled
- significant
- time
- umayyad
- variations
- wide
- world
- year
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