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It's artfully reproduced (no pun intended) original appearance on the coins certainly reminds me of First Millennium descriptions of the idol housed at the kaaba, IIRC today alone at a much older desert pilgrimage site that was for centuries a central location for more than two hundred similarly revered idols "of every description."

Presently, "there is no other god" than Allah, and Hajar-al-Aswad is now alone at this focus of all Muslim worship, at Mecca.

I suppose it's no stretch.

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