Gold dinar, Umayyad Caliphate, found in modern-day Lebanon, 694 AD-695 AD

I do like some good coins, and this one is great :) thanks for tagging me!

The name of the coin ( دِينَار / *dīnār*) is a borrowing from Latin dēnārius, but the coin itself is clearly inspired by the *solidus*. For comparison, a Byzantine one:

The human figure there is part of that “borrowing”. It was still common in Umayyad coins like this one, but later Arab coins avoid it. (Looking into that further, apparently the Quran itself doesn’t forbid figurative art, only idolatry; the avoidance is mostly from a hadith in the Sahih al-Bukhari, that would be compiled ~a century and half after that coin was minted.)