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Coins
The coins collection of the museum is the rarest
and largest. The oldest coin in this collection ,a gold dinar 77 A.H. 696 A.D. did not bear the minting place not the name of
the Umayyad Caliph. The coin minting was completely Arabized during the
Umayyad period 658-750 A.D.
Most of the collection found in
excavations or purchased includes Byzantine coins, Umayyad coins,
Abbasid and Tulunid coins, coins from all the regions of Persia and
Transoxiana, coins from southern Arabia, North Africa and Andalusia.
The Museum acquired a rare hoard of gold
coins of 3611 pieces found in Zeinab Khatoin’s house in 1989, and acquired
another hoard about 1000 pieces in an old house in Darb al-Qazzazin in
Sayyida Zeinab in 1992.
The registered objects : 49030
The Curators
: Sayyed Mohammed Khalifa
:Magda Yousef Mohamed
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