The same is true of another class of imitations which forms by far the bulk of the coinage from both Mileiha and al-Dur. There are several thousand examples known of coins from both sites which imitate the coinage of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great, in showing the head of Heracles on the obverse, wearing the pelt of the Nemean lion (trophy of one of Alexander's most famous 'labours'), and on the reverse, a seated figure of the Greek god Zeus. Coins with the same iconography (i.e. images), but with different 'legends' - i.e. the name of a local king in place of that of Alexander - are known from Mileiha and al-Dur. Such coins were minted by at least two kings, Abyatha and Abi'el. These were certainly used in the first century AD and possibly slightly earlier.

There are also foreign coins from Mileiha and al-Dur, including large numbers of coins minted in northeastern Arabia (i.e. eastern Saudi Arabia); several coins minted by the Seleucid (Greek) kings of Syria and Mesopotamia; one Roman coin of Tiberius; a handful of Indian coins; and several coins from the kingdom of Characene, a small kingdom which flourished in southern Iraq during the last century BC and the first two centuries AD; and small numbers of coins minted by the Sasanians of Iran (third-seventh centuries AD).

Several Islamic sites in the Emirates, such as Julfar, have also yielded coins minted on Jarun by the kingdom of Hormuz and in Iran by the Safavids.