In the Islamic currency system, the first coin that bore an Arabic inscription was called a dinar and was similar, in both size and weight, to the Byzantine solidus. In the margin surrounding the ...

This was really the moment where the Islamic empire was creating a new ... s permanent numismatic display — a dark room with ancient coins from Greece to China, protected behind plexiglass ...

to find such a special and ancient buried treasure." "The cache, deliberately buried in the ground inside a clay jug, held 424 gold coins, with most dated to the early Islamic period and the ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli archaeologists announced Monday the discovery of a trove of early Islamic gold coins ... was among the largest caches of ancient coins found in Israel.

Instead, almost 1,400 years on, the coins have been found by Israeli archaeologists, who hailed the discovery as a rare glimpse into an ancient past ... hidden during the Muslim conquest of ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli archaeologists announced Monday the discovery of a trove of early Islamic gold coins ... was among the largest caches of ancient coins found in Israel.