Taboo Numismatics: An Early Islamic Portrait of the Prophet Muhammad on a coin struck by the Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik in AH 77 (693 CE) within living memory of the Prophet's lifetime.

Is there an early Islamic portrait of the Prophet Muhammad on a coin, perhaps created from the recollections of those Companions ot fhe Prophet who knew him personally, struck in the year 77 AH (693 CE), 61 years after his death?

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items are from between 05 Feb 2006 & 06 Jun 2006.