Sylloge of Islamic coins in the Ashmolean
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Sylloge of Islamic coins in the Ashmolean
Ashmolean Museum , Spink & Son [distributor], 2001-
- v. 1
- v. 2
- v. 6
- v. 9
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Contents of Works
- v. 1: The pre-reform coinage of the early Islamic period / by Stephen Album and Tony Goodwin
- v. 2: Early post-reform coinage / by norman D. Nicol
- v. 6: The Egyptian dynasties / by Norman D. Nicol
- v. 9: Iran after the Mongol invasion / by Stephen Album
Description and Table of Contents
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v. 9 ISBN 9781854441591
Description
This volume (the second to be published in the series) contains nearly 1800 coins of the 13th-19th centuries from Iran, Afghanistan and neighbouring lands. It covers the following dynasties: Ilkhanid, Timurid, Qara Quyunlu, Aq Quyunlu, Safavid, Qaja, Durrani and Barakzay. They are arranged by mint, and chronologically with mints, six maps and index of names and titles. The introduction offers not only a guide to the use of the catalogue, but also sets out an agenda for the study of the monetary history of the period. Late medieval Iranian coinage offers the historian the earliest opportunity to examine the relationship between coinage issue in the Islamic world and the monetary policies which underlie them. The collections which contribute to this volume are all housed in the Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum. The most important of these is undoubtedly that part of the Thorburn collection which was acquired by the Coin Room in 1966. The Ashmolean collection began in the late 17th century but included few Islamic coins until the acquisition of the J.B. Elliott collection in 1859.
Since then the collection of Islamic coins has grown to more than 9000 pieces, not including the Ottoman Empire, the Muslim states of India or modern machine-struck coinage. This catalogue is the second in a projected series of ten volumes, covering the Ashmolean's permanent collection of Islamic coins and that of Samir Shamma, one of the finest private collections of Islamic coins ever formed in the Middle East.
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v. 1 ISBN 9781854441737
Description
This will be the third volume to appear in a proposed ten-volume series, which aims to present the coins and their descriptions in as simple a manner as possible and in a format which is intended to facilitate ease of use. The coins are grouped in regional or dynastic sub-sections and then arranged chronologically under mint headings.
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v. 6 ISBN 9781854442109
Description
This volume contains nearly 1600 coins of the 9th-16th centuries from North Africa to Great Syria. The collections included in the catalogue are those of the Heberden Coin Room and the Shamma Collection. Unlike previous SICA volumes, the coins are arranged by dynasty and ruler because of the large number of distinctive types belonging to each dynasty's coinage.
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v. 2 ISBN 9781854442383
Description
This volume contains over 1600 coins of the 7th-10th centuries from all parts of the Islamic Empire. Numerous examples of Umayyad gold, silver and copper coinage are included, as well as Abbasid revolutionary issues and Abbasid copper coins. The collections included in the catalogue are those of the Heberden Coin Room and the Samir Shamma Collection. The coins issued without mint-names are arranged chronologically by year; those with mint-names are arranged by mint in Arabic alphabetical order.
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