#26: COINS Never Lie, yet say Nothing about early 7th c. Islam!

Today, whenever someone comes to power, they simply announce it using newspapers, or TV, or the internet. In the 7th century, when these medias didn’t exist, in order for a new king or a caliph to announce to his subjects who he was, he only had one vehicle to do so, and that was minting coins. Everybody had to use coins, so what better way than minting them to say who you were. Thus, the information concerning who was in power and who was in charge in the 7th century lay entirely in coins. The Caliph would include an image of himself, along with his name, and a symbol of his religion on the coin he was minting. So, any coins minted between 622 AD and 661 AD, the period of the ’Rightly Guided Caliphs’ should be replete with references to these initial Islamic caliphs, such as Muhammad, Abu Bakr, Umar and Ali. At least they should have images of them, and references to them. According to the Standard Islamic Narrative (SIN), Mecca and Medina would have been the seats of power