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This folio shows what came after the Kufic style. Note that the letters are more curved and crammed.

A page from one of the oldest Qurans on record. The left side of the picture depicts the older, "covered" text, with the right side shows the newer, "covering" text.

Two folios from one of the oldest Qurans on record.

Coin of a A Byzantine Ruler

It seems that different dies were mixed to create this bronze Byzantine tetarteron. The obverse, which depicts the Virgin, seems to use the same die as a coin from a coin of Constantine X. The image of Christ on the reverse appears to have been…