A lecture on pre-Islamic coins discovered in the Kingdom of Mleiha

‘Professor Issa Yousef, Director of the Department of Archaeology and Material Heritage, at the Sharjah Archaeology Authority, delivered a lecture on “Pre-Islamic Coins Discovered in the Kingdom of Mleiha”. The lecturer described the site of the kingdom of Mleiha as one of the important internal sites in the central region where it was an important passage of trade between many capitals and cities of the ancient world, housing a lot of huge buildings, some of them: the palace building and the fort building, inside which “a coin casting mold” was discovered, which is one of the most important coin casting mold in the first century AD. At the site of Mleiha, burials for camels and horses were found, in addition to Greek pottery, including amphora jars and tombstones with inscriptions in the Musnad and Aramaic script. Jars from Qalqilya, Indian pottery and Roman glassware were also found. The lecturer classified the coins found in the Kingdom of Mleiha in terms of denomination: such as the Opole, Drachma and Tetra Drachma, as well as in terms of the source, where Roman coins were discovered such as the Emperor Augustus and Tiberius coins, Nabataean silver coins, Seleucids, and Indian coins, At the end of the lecture ,the lecturer thanked His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council of the Union and Ruler of the emirate of Sharjah, patron of the rich cultural, artistic and archaeological movement throughout the emirate, the United Arab Emirates, the Arab and Islamic world and the rest of the world.”