I have some
Islamic gold (2), but no camera or smart phone and not handy. I like the calligraphy, "beloved...something series. and (I believe) a Mughul coin. Also a
crusader gold coin in (imitation I am told) arabic script. One series that is extraordinary, that I have seen in catalogues is the gold astrological series, or maybe there is more than one?? It is a different kind of beauty than Greek or
Roman, but bakkar is right, it is quite beautiful.
I apologize for my vagueness, but I suspect that experienced coin collectors are like the POWs in the POW camp. There was a new shotdown pilot brought in an put in a cell with an "old-timer". Someone yelled out "42!" and everybody laughed and roared. Then someone yelled "73!" and that created a
good chuckle. The new prisoner looked at the old-timer and the old-timer explained that they
had told the same jokes so many times, that all they
had to do is refer to the number, instead of actually telling the joke. The new prisoner got excited and wanting to be
part of the game, yelled out, "57!". Nobody reacted. The new prisoner, wondering what he
had said wrong, looked at the old timer, to which the old-timer replied, "Oh, don't worry about it kid, that joke is just not that funny."
So I
hope that in my vagueness, if some old-timer to
Islamic coins finds it worthwhile, they will show examples of the coins, or something in the ball park. In some ways, I think the iconoclastic, calligraphic coins are more typical, although that also means that the more 'pictural' one are conceptually quite interesting, given the iconoclasism of
Islamic culture.