Coin of the Abbasids, Baghdad, Iraq, 765. The Abbasid Caliphate (Arabic: العبّاسيّون / ISO 233: al-'abbāsīyūn), was the third of the Islamic caliphates. Compared with the artistic glory of the numismatics of the Greeks and the historical grandour of the Roman coinage, this crude aniconic coinage with the repetitive and stereotypical 'La-La-Allah' legends is simply depressing. No wonder so few people collect them.
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