>>519017524
Interestingly enough the coin displayed in the OP was minted by the Umayyad Caliphate. It's not clipped and it was made to commemorate the Temple they built in Jerusalem. >"For our purposes the most interesting type of early Arab coinage, is a sequence of copper fals, the significance of which has only recently been recognised and which have consequently received much less academic attention than the coinage of silver and gold. These fals display the image of the menorah, the Jewish seven-lamp candelabrum, and are accompanied by an Arabic-Quranic inscription, typically: ‘lā ilāha illā Allāh wadaḥu Muḥammad rasūl Allāh’, conventionally translatable as ‘There is no god but Allah alone, and Muhammad is Allah’s messenger’" >"This short-lived currency coincided with the Islamicization of Jerusalem and its folklore, with a particular interest in the temple of David and Solomon. The coins of Jerusalem thus suggest that as the Temple was rebuilt, for one brief moment the menorah of the Temple became a possession of Islam."
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I'm not talking about the image that the Australian posted, but the one I posted. Do you see how the specie is still circular? It was minted by the Muslims and has nothing to do with the Jews.