It's a human tendency to engrave the glorious and holy in gold: depictions of Christian icons from the walls of Istanbul's Hagia Sophia have been handed down through the generations on Byzantine gold coins, India's great god Shiva appears on the gold coins of the Kushan and Gupta Empires, and Arabian gold coins display scriptures from the Koran on both sides.
人們習慣在金幣上，銘記光榮與神聖：伊斯坦堡聖索菲亞大教堂牆上的基督聖像，在拜占庭金幣上傳世千載；印度神通廣大的濕婆神，在貴霜王朝和笈多王朝的金幣上現身；在每一枚阿拉伯金幣的正反兩面，則顯示著可蘭經真主的訓示。