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The Standing Caliph Dinar

A transitional gold coin type issued under Abd al-Malik depicting the caliph before the 77 AH reform replaced all figural imagery with epigraphy.

Gold Standing Caliph dinar of Abd al-Malik, obverse, showing the caliph standing in robes with a sword
A Standing Caliph gold dinar of Abd al-Malik (694–696 CE), struck before the 77 AH reform removed figural imagery from the coinage. (PHGCOM, British Museum / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0))

A full entry on the Standing Caliph coin series, its imagery, dating, and relationship to the subsequent epigraphic coinage reform, is in progress.