Morton & Eden Ltd, London-based specialist coin and medal auctioneers, will be offering forsale a complete set of 56 Umayyad gold dinars dating from years 77 to 132 Hijra (CE 696-750).

It comprises one coin of each date, all in excellent condition including the very rare year 77dinar. They are expected to realise £200,000-300,000 in an auction sale in London on 23 July.

Such sets are rarely encountered and are of great importance to Muslims as they represent thevery first purely Islamic gold coinage.

Tom Eden, Director of Morton & Eden, commented,

Portraiture was dispensed with in favour of Qur'anic verse to spread the new religion. TheShahada inscribed on their obverses stresses the singularity of God (thereby rejecting theChristian notion of the Trinity) - There is no god but God alone. He has no associate.

From a historical perspective, the coins represent a key stage in the establishment of a stableIslamic state.

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