Arab-Byzantine Coins: An Introduction, with a Catalogue of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection

ISBN-13: 9780884023180 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 66 str.

Clive Foss

Opis

This illustrated handbook provides a concise history of the development of the coinage of the early Arab caliphate in the seventh century, tracing its transition from coins that closely resembled Byzantine issues with imperial images to purely aniconic specimens with inscriptions in Arabic.