Caliphate
9 entries
Islamic Dinar
First issued by Caliph Abd al-Malik in his coinage reform of 696 AD. Featured no images, only Qurani...
Umayyad Dirham
The silver coin of the early Islamic Caliphate. Featured only inscriptions in Arabic, with the name ...
Abbasid Dinar
The gold dinar of the Abbasid Caliphate, the dominant gold coin of the medieval Mediterranean. Featu...
Islamic Fals
The copper coin of everyday commerce in the early Islamic world. Unlike gold dinars and silver dirha...
Umayyad Gold Dinar
The first purely Islamic gold coin. Caliph Abd al-Malik introduced it in his coinage reform of 696. ...
Umayyad Fals
See Islamic Fals. Early Umayyad copper coins retained Byzantine and Sasanian imagery before the refo...
Abbasid Fals
Copper coins of the Abbasid Caliphate, minted in dozens of cities across the Islamic world. Each cit...
Umayyad Copper
The last Umayyad copper coins before the reform of Abd al-Malik. These coins showed the caliph stand...
Abbasid Copper Dirham
A copper coin of the Abbasid period used for small transactions. The copper dirham or fels was minte...