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R. and E. Darley-Doran, Michael Bates, Elizabeth Savage and Isa Baidoun
The Collection has one of the most outstanding groups of Islamic coins in private hands, with over 8,000 examples in gold, silver and copper. Many series are represented in larger numbers and greater variety than in any other collection. The coins span the Islamic world from North Africa to Central Asia and India and date from the Umayyad period to the 20th century. Thus, the two-volume catalogue will constitute an indispensable reference work for both scholars and students of Islamic numismatics.
Among the most spectacular and important holdings are the earliest Arab-Latin gold coins from North Africa. The standard corpus of this series of Islamic coins with Latin inscriptions includes only three examples of the first two years' issues (AD 704-05), but the Khalili Collection has at least a dozen. These coins form the basis of a study which will dramatically change our ideas about the origin of this coinage.
Also of special interest among the gold coins is a superb quality dinar of the year AH 77, the first Arab gold coin with the words of the Kalimah in its legend; an excessively rare Hijaz dinar of the year AH 105, and the only known specimen in a private collection; a superb and extremely rare Abbasid dinar of the year AH 132; two issues of the dinar of Harun al-Rashid bearing his full title (years AH 170 and 171); a unique dinar of the Ilkhanid Musa Khan; and a 5-piece Qajar treasury set of 50, 20 and 10 tomans.
The silver coinage is also extensive in its coverage, and contains many unparalleled and important series. The bronze coins include an impressive assemblage of fine examples, and particular emphasis has been placed on the early Arab-Byzantine period and on the expressive and attractive Artuqid coins of the Jazira and Eastern Anatolia.
Dr Michael L. Bates is Curator of Islamic Coins, American Numismatic Collection, New York.
Dr Elizabeth Savage is an indepenent historian and numismatist, based in London.
Robert and Elizabeth Darley-Doran are independent numismatists.
Issa Baidoun is an Islamic historian with a special interest in numismatics.Dr Michael L. Bates is Curator of Islamic Coins, American Numismatic Collection, New York.
Dr Elizabeth Savage is an indepenent historian and numismatist, based in London.
Robert and Elizabeth Darley-Doran are independent numismatists.
Issa Baidoun is an Islamic historian with a special interest in numismatics.
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