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<p>[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 4595082, member: 74834"]This is an interesting subject, but there's hundreds or thousands of different coin types to be found. I think once you are used to it, it's not so difficult to distinguish between variants, and there are MANY variants. It's useful to have some basic Greek and Arabic, just easy basics. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Spink book has excellent illustrations, but it's a very large overview and you won't find much difference in types, just genereal of coins. It gives a rough idea, but you will not find that particular type you are looking for. As for prices, these are for the better than usual condition coins of average types. It's about medieval islamic coins, until about 1500 AD. If you are a serious collector of islamic coins, you can't go without it. And you need the <a href="https://www.stevealbum.com/pdfs/ChecklistOfIslamicCoins3rdEdition2011Free.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.stevealbum.com/pdfs/ChecklistOfIslamicCoins3rdEdition2011Free.pdf" rel="nofollow">Stephen Album online catalogue</a> for details. (I'm sure you are aware of Zeno). </p><p><br /></p><p>In the last decade, there were some publications about this type of coins: the islamic imitations of Byzantine coins. You may find these partly on Academia.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 4595082, member: 74834"]This is an interesting subject, but there's hundreds or thousands of different coin types to be found. I think once you are used to it, it's not so difficult to distinguish between variants, and there are MANY variants. It's useful to have some basic Greek and Arabic, just easy basics. The Spink book has excellent illustrations, but it's a very large overview and you won't find much difference in types, just genereal of coins. It gives a rough idea, but you will not find that particular type you are looking for. As for prices, these are for the better than usual condition coins of average types. It's about medieval islamic coins, until about 1500 AD. If you are a serious collector of islamic coins, you can't go without it. And you need the [URL='https://www.stevealbum.com/pdfs/ChecklistOfIslamicCoins3rdEdition2011Free.pdf']Stephen Album online catalogue[/URL] for details. (I'm sure you are aware of Zeno). In the last decade, there were some publications about this type of coins: the islamic imitations of Byzantine coins. You may find these partly on Academia.[/QUOTE]
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