Yeah - apologists are creative when it comes to contriving excuses.
http://academicatheism.tumblr.com/post/6...e-muhammad
Coins in circulation would have remained in circulation but would a fiercely expansionist new doctrine have really included enemy symbolism on its newly-minted coins? Doubtful. Coins were hardly new technology. They'd been around for nearly 1500 years at this point and everyone knew how to mint them.
http://academicatheism.tumblr.com/post/6...e-muhammad
Quote:Other coins from this period also bear the cross and the word Muhammad. A Syrian coin that dates from 686 or 687, at the earliest, features what numismatist Volker Popp describes as “the muhammad motto” on the reserve side. The obverse depicts a ruler crowned with a cross and holding another cross.
Coins in circulation would have remained in circulation but would a fiercely expansionist new doctrine have really included enemy symbolism on its newly-minted coins? Doubtful. Coins were hardly new technology. They'd been around for nearly 1500 years at this point and everyone knew how to mint them.