LE MONDE ARABE
Umayyad Caliphate
Hisham, AH 105-125 (724-743 CE). Dirham AH 120 (738 CE), Ifriqiya. Obverse: Kalima. Marginal inscription: Mint and date / Reverse: Qur'an CXII: 1-4. Marginal inscription: Qur'an IX: 33. 2,88g. Klat 107, citing a single specimen in Tübingen collection.

The second known specimen. Extremely fine.

Coins with the mint name Ifriqiya were obviously struck in the Tunisian city of Qayrawan, an important center for Sunni Islamic scholarship and Qur’anic learning founded by Umayyads in c. 670 CE. This dirham is among the earliest numismatic evidences naming the province of Ifriqiya in the Maghreb region.