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<p>[QUOTE="Parthicus, post: 4595178, member: 81887"]I'm more into Arab-Sasanian than Arab-Byzantine, but I have picked up a couple of Arab-Byzantine fals along the way. Here is one of the more common types, from Emesa (Homs) in Syria, with the mint name on reverse in both Greek and Arabic:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1137987[/ATTACH]</p><p>This coin, of the "Standing Caliph" series, has a distinctive portrait of... well, presumably the Caliph on obverse, and on the reverse the cross on the original prototype has transformed into... something that's not exactly a cross:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1137990[/ATTACH]</p><p>The Spink book, as already mentioned, is a nice overview but doesn't list a lot of varieties. I use Album's checklist frequently, it lists many varieties but is unillustrated, and of course ignores many smaller variations. (You have to cut something to fit in the vast field of Islamic coinage from over a thousand years, covering a huge swath of the planet, into one volume of usable length.) There is an old book by John Walker about Arab-Byzantine coins, that I see frequently in lists of references, but it's decades out of print and used copies are unaffordable. Good luck in this new sub-collection![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Parthicus, post: 4595178, member: 81887"]I'm more into Arab-Sasanian than Arab-Byzantine, but I have picked up a couple of Arab-Byzantine fals along the way. Here is one of the more common types, from Emesa (Homs) in Syria, with the mint name on reverse in both Greek and Arabic: [ATTACH=full]1137987[/ATTACH] This coin, of the "Standing Caliph" series, has a distinctive portrait of... well, presumably the Caliph on obverse, and on the reverse the cross on the original prototype has transformed into... something that's not exactly a cross: [ATTACH=full]1137990[/ATTACH] The Spink book, as already mentioned, is a nice overview but doesn't list a lot of varieties. I use Album's checklist frequently, it lists many varieties but is unillustrated, and of course ignores many smaller variations. (You have to cut something to fit in the vast field of Islamic coinage from over a thousand years, covering a huge swath of the planet, into one volume of usable length.) There is an old book by John Walker about Arab-Byzantine coins, that I see frequently in lists of references, but it's decades out of print and used copies are unaffordable. Good luck in this new sub-collection![/QUOTE]
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