Byzantine and Sassanian coins circulating in Iraq until the end of the reign of Abdul Malik bin Marwan | ||
| Journal Of Babylon Center for Humanities Studies | ||
| Article 1, Volume 2, Issue 2, December 2012, Pages 229-272 | ||
| Author | ||
| Ali Kadim Abbas Al-Shaik | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Money is regarded as an important document which cannot be neglected depended by archaeologists to identify archaeological sites as well as researchers and students in order to document historical events . Coins were invented by the people of kingdom of Laydia , the inhabitants of small Asia around 7th century B.C .Their kings have coined money on which they engraved first distinct from of money ( lion before bull ) . Then , it spread to the nearby areas related to the kingdom through trading relations . Coining was not only restricted to the trading exchange and treatment but it also had a religious and political from , hence , the figures , animals and pictures on the Greek , Roman , Ikhmini and even Sassani coins had a political or religious nature . In Arab Peninsula , Biziinti dinars were used in treatment in the past ( which hold king's portrait of Herocle alone or with his sons ) . In addition to Sassani dirham's ( which hold the Sassani king's portrait with fire stag )and such coins were used in Syria , Egypt , and Iraq . The present study includes pictures of coins from Greece , Rome and Ikhmin. It also studies group of coins ( Bizinti dinars and Sassani dirham ) kept in Iraqi Museum which had been used pre and post – Islam . The researcher has studied inscriptions and figures held on the coins. When Islam appeared , such coins were decided to be used as a metal value. Finally , the stages of Arabization of these coins at the time of Islam have also been covered especially in Umayyad era during caliph Abdulmalik Bin Marwan ( 65 –86 – AH.) to be purified from the foreign figures and use Quranic verses instead by means of pictures for the foreign money and their Arabization stages . | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Humanities; Ancient; Islamic History | ||
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