Early Islamic Coinage
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UPDATE Summer 2024. This article was earlier declined by a leading journal specialising in Islamic studies and another concerned with the ancient history and archaeology of the southern Levant, citing rather absurd and disingenuous... more
Arabic Glasses (Coin weights, jetons and vessel stamps) from Umayyad Syria, in T. Goodwin (ed.), Coinage and History in Seventh Century Near East 5. Proceedings of the 15th Seventh Century Syrian Numismatic Round Table held at Corpus... more
Digitized collection of public domain works and articles on islamic numismatics
This dissertation uses all of the available evidence provided by coins to construct a numismatic history of the early Islamic precious metal coinage of North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula. The dissertation begins with a review of the... more
This dissertation uses all of the available evidence provided by coins to construct a numismatic history of the early Islamic precious metal coinage of North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula. The dissertation begins with a review of the... more
In the course of the 9–10 th centuries A.D. the region lying between the Oxus and Jaxartes Rivers, known as Transoxania or Mā warā' al-nahr (Arabic), was governed by the Samanid dynasty. Like several other regions located on the... more
الحمد لله، والصلاة و السلام على سيد خلق الله نبينا محمد، عليه وعلى آله أتم الصلاة والتسليم. لا تخفى على أحد أهمية استخدام المراجع العلمية الموثوقة في عملية البحث العلمي، و حيث أننا قد أمرنا بالعلم والتعلّم، كان لزاما علينا السعي للحصول... more
The fifth century AH/eleventh century CE in Shām and the Jazīra was a period of a receding monetary economy, and drastically shrinking number of produced coins. Contemporary legal texts supported by archaeologically provenanced coin... more
درهم عباسي شديد الندرة ضرب دمشق سنة 181 هجرية في عهد الخليفة العباسي هرون الرشيد.
MOZO MONROY, Manuel, y PELLICER I BRU, Josep, «Análisis de una nueva tipología áurea arábiga castellana a nombre de ALF, del año 1302 de Safar (1264. d.C.)», Gaceta Numismática, 196, (Barcelona, diciembre 2018), pp. 80-96.
درهم عباسي نادر و غير منشور ضرب دمشق سنة 193 هجرية في أول سنة من سنوات تولي الخليفة الأمين. علاوة على كون الدرهم غير منشور فقد تميز بمأثورات الظهر المميزة، و يحمل حرف (ه) في أسفل مأثورات الظهر و هذا الحرف شبيه بالحرف التي ظهر على دراهم... more
1. A late Sasanian/Arab Sasanian issue with a fire altar without attendants on the reverse
2. A bilingual Pehlevi-Arabic coin, maybe indicating the value on the Arabic side (towards the end, instead of 7th century read 8th century!)
2. A bilingual Pehlevi-Arabic coin, maybe indicating the value on the Arabic side (towards the end, instead of 7th century read 8th century!)
Depuis 2011, le Projet germano-danois du quartier nord-ouest de Gerasa mene des recherches archeologiques sur la zone la plus elevee de l’ancienne ville enceinte. En 2014, les fouilles ont debute sur la « terrasse orientale », qui s’etend... more
Fatimids and Umayyads: Competing Caliphates.
The Institute of Ismaili Studies.
Contributers' Workshop.
23-25 September. London.
talk given on the 25th
Corrected & updated 3/5/ 2017
The Institute of Ismaili Studies.
Contributers' Workshop.
23-25 September. London.
talk given on the 25th
Corrected & updated 3/5/ 2017
This dissertation uses all of the available evidence provided by coins to construct a numismatic history of the early Islamic precious metal coinage of North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula. The dissertation begins with a review of the... more
من مجموعتي الشخصية، درهم نادر من نقود ممالك طوائف الموحدين في منتصف القرن السابع الهجري، وهو درهم أمير الغرب المستعين بالله موسى بن محمد بن نصير بن محفوظ. و يزن هذا الدرهم النادر 1.50 جراماً ، و تبلغ أبعاده 15x15 مم، أما مأثوراته فقد جاءت... more
Syrian coppper coins modelled after Sicilian issues of Constantine IV feature the Pehlevi legend "mlt'n MLKA", "mardan shah", "King of the men". We believe that that this might refer to the Mardaites, which would explain the totally... more
1) The "severed head" type: We try to show that it is in fact derived from a Byzantine model showing two standing emperors, the left of which is getting more and more reduced. 2) The "orans" type in Syrian copper coinage is not a... more
دينار فريد و شديد الندرة لبنو الرسي ضرب صنعاء سنة 288 هجرية في عهد الإمام الرسي الهادي إلى الحق يحيى بن الحسين بن القاسم
Roma - Museo Nazionale Romano, 29 e 30 settembre 2017
This is a note record for copper coins (AE) issued in the caliphal era (632-945) without a mint name on the coin--exceptional, but not exactly uncommon. "no mint" is a numisgeek phrase for such coins. I call attention to a statement by... more
Dots found on some early Abbasid dinars - their meaning, significance and distribution.
Mint attribution of the early Abbasid dinars struck in AH 132-213.
This article suggests that bronze from the Colossus of Rhodes was recycled at Emesa (Syria) to produce early Umayyad coins. This topic was also published as:
Sam Moorhead,
Sam Moorhead,