Ladies and Gentlemen, Here we have a true piece of museum grade numismatic coinage from the Islamic conquest. This item is shipped from the USA and would make a fine addition to any ancient coin enthusiast! Below is the history of the coin ! However , if you ended up here, then you know what you are looking at. This would be a wonderful conversation piece, or even a wonderful piece of jewlery. Imagine , carrying your lucky museum quality coin in your back pocket , can you imagine the thousands of hands it has passed through ?! Simply amazing !!! It weighs around 4 grams. Give or take of pure gold ! History : The Islamic dinar, a nearly pure gold coin of about 4 grams, was a high denomination piece widely used in medieval international trade. Europe, in contrast to the Muslim world, was an impoverished backwater in this era, with little trade outside the Byzantine Empire. The early Islamic caliphates, on the other hand, were obscenely wealthy due to their extensive trade relations with sub-Saharan Africa, India and even China. Because of this robust commerce, gold dinar coins of the early Islamic Caliphates had relatively high mintages and thus survived in reasonable quantities to the present. In addition to the dinar, fractional gold coins were also sometimes struck in quarter and half units. Islam has a general prohibition on displaying images in art - human or otherwise. Most Islamic art is therefore non-representational in nature, instead consisting of intricate, geometric patterns or elaborate, ornamental calligraphy. Consequently, the coinage of Muslim kingdoms was struck with highly stylized Arabic (or Persian) calligraphy on both sides. This style of Islamic coinage was a distinctive break from the ancient Greek and Roman tradition of placing rulers, gods or animals on coins. This resulted in a breathtakingly beautiful, as well as tantalizingly exotic Islamic-style coinage that was minted for hundreds of years across dozens of Muslim dynasties.