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Specialist publishers of price guide reference books. Established 1959

An Introduction to

Arabic Coins & How

to Read Them
1st Edition 1973
2nd Edition 19 80
Reprinted 2000

This version © Richard

J. Plant 2014

ISBN: (printed version)

978-0-948964-13-8
eBook version ISBN:
978-0-901170-30-9
 CONTENTS
Foreword

ChapterI The numerals. A

ChapterII The Alphabet
Mint and date o
ChapterIII List of recent su
Coin denomina
ChapterIV Four coins with
connections. Na
ChapterV Modern royal co
vowel sign
ChapterVI Morocco. Non-r
ChapterVII The Kufic script
ChapterVIII Kufic dating
ChapterIX Mohammed and
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ChapterX An Umaiyid coi
verb
ChapterXI
The Abbasid co
ChapterXII
 CONTENTS
Foreword

Chapter I The numerals. Arabic dating

Chapter II The Alphabet

Chapter III Mint and date on Ottoman coins. List of recent sultans

Chapter IV Four coins with Ottoman connections. Names

Chapter V Four coins with Ottoman connections. Names

Chapter VI Modern royal coins. The short vowel sign

Chapter VII Morocco, Non-royal coins

Chapter VIII The Kufic script

Chapter IX Kufic dating

Chapter X Mohammed and the early Caliphate. Umaiyid Caliphs,

Early mints

Chapter XI An Umaiyid coin examined. The verb

Chapter XII The Abbasid coin. Abbasid Caliphs

Chapter XIII
CONTENTS

Foreword Chapter I The numerals. Arabic dating

Chapter II The Alphabet

Chapter III Mint and date on Ottoman coins. List of recent sultans

Chapter IV Coin denominations. The plural

Chapter V Four coins with Ottoman connections. Names

Chapter VI Modern royal coins. The short vowel sign

Chapter VII Morocco. Non-royal coins

Chapter VIII The Kufic script Chapter IX Kufic dating

Chapter X Mohammed and the early Caliphate. Umaiyid Caliphs. Early mints

Chapter XI An Umaiyid coin examined. The verb

Chapter XII The Abbasid coin. Abbasid Caliphs

Chapter XIII The developing Kufi type. Secular rulers

Chapter XIV The Umaiyids of Spain. Shi’ites. The Fatimids

Chapter XV Sultans of Delhi. Their earlier coins

Chapter XVI Later Delhi coins. The Mohammedan kingdoms of India

Chapter XVII The Almohades. The Ayyubids and the Mamluks

Chapter XVIII The Seljuk advance. The Seljuks of Rum. The Urtuqids and Zengids

Chapter XIX The history and coinage of the Mongols. The llkhans

Chapter XX Post-llkhanid Persia. ThePersian couplet

Chapter XXI The Safavid Shahs. Nadir’s chronogram. Honorific epithets

Chapter XXII Qajar Shahs. Persian numbers. Afghan rulers

Chapter XXIII The Moghuls, and their earlier coins. Persian solar months

Chapter XXIV Later Moghul coins

Chapter XXV Moghul reverses. Company coins, and coins of Native States

Chapter XXVI Malaya and Indonesia

Answers to the Exercises

Vocabulary

Appendices:
Numismatically important Ayyubids
The Ghaznavids
The Samanids
Chronological Lists of Rulers Lists of Mints

Index