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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TTerrier, post: 2941198, member: 76835&quot;]Very nice Arab-Byzantine coin.&nbsp; I just received a book on these - &quot;Arab-Byzantine Coins from the Irbid Hoard&quot; - Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication No. 53 (I ordered mine from Spink in the UK).</p><p><br /></p><p>The book does not limit itself to just the Irbid Hoard but has a great discussion of the current thinking on the Arab-Byzantine coins as a whole and lists the main types.&nbsp; It also has a die study of the &quot;Pseudo-Damascus&quot; mint - interesting to me as it lays out how the die linkages work and what you can conclude from that once you work it out.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Arab-Byzantine coinage is split into three main areas in the 1st chapter of the book:&nbsp; Pseudo-Byzantine for coins imitating the style of Byzantine coins but without any attempt to get meaningful legends and more importantly mint information on the coin; Umayyad Imperial coinage (which includes the OP coin above) where the style still imitates Byzantine coins but we now have a more or less legible legend (often a mixture of Greek and Arabic) and mint information; and finally Standing Caliph coinage which mostly abandons the Byzantine style and includes images of the Caliph with Arabic legends.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately I don&#039;t have a decent example of one of these yet but I&#039;d be happy to&nbsp; get one as nice as the OP coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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