This 651CE coin from Bishapur with the Arabic phrase "Bismillah" on it shows that there was a religious change in the leadership of the Persian Empire which had no impact on Numismatics in clearly therefore independent Syria. The differences in currency corroborates the Shia narrative that Ali ruled the Persian Empire as an Imamate while the non-believing Umayyads ruled in Syria. The coin also confirms the Spiritual Shia view that depicting Ali's face has never been a problem for the real Quran-obedient community and Iconoclasm is really just a puritanical innovation. Retaining the depiction of the two Priests either side of an altar on the reverse of the coin shows that a kind of Mithraism was actually the religion of Ali and the Imamate's Quranic materials plagiarised by Uthman. The only possible conclusion is that the religion Ali promoted was a form of Mithraism where the prophecies concerning Mithra as an Aeon of G-d are equated with those concerning the Messiah and that the community saw these fulfilled in Marym's son Ieso. In order to turn Mithreans into Noahites it would have been necessary and therefore in the Jews' best interests to promote the idea that a Jewish Polemicist had fulfilled the Mithraic prophecies in a way which was considered compatible with Judaism.
