TEHRAN – Iran will announce 63 historic coins engraved with the name of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) during Islamic Unification Week, officials said Thursday.
Hamidreza Soleimani, head of the Dafineh Museums Group, said the coin will be announced on Sunday, September 7th at a ceremony commemorating the 1,500th anniversary of the birth of the Prophet. The event will be held at Shahidzaheady Hall at the Mostazafan Foundation in Tehran, he added.
Soleimani said 63 coins representing the year of the Prophet’s life were chosen by the Treasury Ministry of the Foundation for Historical Currency. Following the announcement, they will be open for two weeks at the Astan Quds Razavi Museum in Mashhad.
The collection includes the most prominent gold dinars and silver dirhams of the entire Islamic world, Soleimani said. The oldest coin dates back to the 7th century AD, and the most recent one belongs to the Iranian Qajar period.
He said the coins span multiple dynasties, including Abbasid, Samanid, Agravid, Turnid, Gaznavid, Ghalid, Seljuk, Ilhanid, Timrid, Safavid, Afsharid and Qajars. Their geographical origins include the Indian subcontinent, Central Asia, Iran, Mesopotamia, the Levant and North Africa.
Islamic unity week is observed annually between the dates that Sunni and Shia Muslims regarded as the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad.
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