TRADE AND COMMERCE
-A SHARIAH-COMPLIANT CREDIT CARD, EVEN THE BRITISH MUSEUM’S 100 OBJECTS SERIES PUTS THIS AT #99, JUST BEFORE A SOLAR POWERED PHONE CHARGER
-THE GOLD COIN OF ABD AL MALIK IBN MARWAN, 9TH CENTURY UMAYYAD CALIPH, WITH QURANIC INSCRIPTION, THE FIRST TO USE RELIGIOUS TEXT AND NOT ROYAL PORTRAITURE TO GUARANTEE PAYMENT
-A MARIA THALER COIN, THE BASIC CURRENCY OF GULF STATES FIRST MINTED ALMOST THREE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, WHEN WESTERN IMPERIALISTS PUT THEIR DESIGNS OF THE REGION, SOMETHING LIKE A PACK OF KENT CIGARETTES IN THE BALKANS DURING THE MOST RECENT WAR, AN ARBITRARY HOLDER OF WEALTH, BY WHICH LOCAL PRODUCTS WERE VALUED IN FOREIGN EQUIVALENCE, A GLOBAL PRESTIGE OBJECT MAKING TRADE CONNECTIONS TO THE WIDER WORLD
-A MODERN BANK CHECK, A PIECE OF PAPER BASED ON THE ISLAMIC FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT THE SAKK, WHICH FOR INSTANCE THE 11TH CENTURY TRAVELER NASIR I KUSRAW DESCRIBED CASHING IN BASRA
