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| Source: IMA website. |
The Islamic Museum of Australia (IMA) is launching Australia's first Islamic Coins Exhibition on 12th March 2016 in conjunction with the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority. Running to 30th May 2016, the event will present 100 original gold dinars dating from the Umayyad period through to the Ottoman era.
The coins will showcase the empires, sultanates, khanates, caliphates and territories from which they come, reflecting the norms of trade across different eras and illustrating the history of Islamic finance at the same time.
The coins are part of a personal collection belonging to coin specialist Abdullah Bin Jassim Al Mutairi. This Emirati historian and numismatist has 15,000 coins in his collection, representing one of the largest and most rare collections in the world.