The iron scabbard of a sword. A well-rubbed coin. How old are these things? The running man doesn’t know. “Kadim jidn,” he says: Very old. He shrugs. The Hejaz—a crossroads where Arabia ...
Struck from gold mined at a site owned by the Caliph himself, the coin bears the inscription “Mine of the Commander of the Faithful in the Hejaz”. That makes it the earliest known Islamic coin ...
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