COMPLETE SET OF UMAYYAD GOLD DINARS

Year 77 Umayyad gold dinar

Morton & Eden Ltd, London-based specialist coin and medal auctioneers, will be offering for sale a complete set of 56 Umayyad gold dinars dating from years 77 to 132 Hijra (CE 696-750).

It comprises one coin of each date, all in excellent condition including the very rare year 77 dinar. They are expected to realise £200,000-300,000 in an auction sale in London on 23 July.

Such sets are rarely encountered and are of great importance to Muslims as they represent the very first purely Islamic gold coinage.

Tom Eden, Director of Morton & Eden, commented, Morton & Eden sold the majority of the coins in this assembled set in 2006 and we are delighted to be handling the sale again almost two decades later. The very rare year 77 dinar is especially significant as it was issued by the great caliph ‘Abd al-Malik bin Marwan who reformed the coinage in this year and set the pattern for Islamic coins for centuries to follow.

Portraiture was dispensed with in favour of Qur'anic verse to spread the new religion. The Shahada inscribed on their obverses stresses the singularity of God (thereby rejecting the Christian notion of the Trinity) – There is no god but God alone. He has no associate.

From a historical perspective, the coins represent a key stage in the establishment of a stable Islamic state.

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