Gold coins of Abd al-Malik
AD 696-697 · Resource
The first purely epigraphic Islamic gold dinars, struck by the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik in AH 77 (696-697). His coinage reform replaced figural imagery with Arabic religious text.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 696
- Hijra (622)
- Tang dynasty (618)
- Arab conquest of the Maghreb (647)
- Muhammad's first revelation (610)
- Reign of Charlemagne (768)
- Death of Muhammad (632)
- Islamic Golden Age (750)
- Abbasid Caliphate founded (750)
- Battle of Yarmouk (636)
- Fall of the Sasanian Empire (651)