Ed Hohertz writes:
"E-Sylum readers may find this online Abbasid coin identification publication of interest. It is well designed and handles complex issues with clarity."
Thank you. The 84-page book is in Spanish and English and is illustrated in color. Looks very useful. Here's the author's preface and some sample pages.
-Editor
This writing was born as a personal work. My own interest prompted a guide to help me identify Abbasid
coins. I soon understood that I needed help bring it to completion, this help was selflessly given to me
from Federico. And that's how little by little it has grown to become the work you have in your hands.
A publication like this one involves many risks due to various factors.
On the one hand, we have that the Abbasid Caliphate lasted for 524 years, going through various historical
periods, which means that we can see different styles of coinage, calligraphy and even the distribution of
legends. We can add to this that there was a huge extension, since many of its territories acted almost
autonomously and therefore issued differente currency than the official one.
The number of mints that issued coins at some point in the history of this Caliphate is enormous, here we have
registered around two hundred, but surely some have been overlooked. Despite this we believe that the
compilation is quite complete and that it will help those who use it.
It has been completed with some sections that allow deciphering the value and dates of the coins. It is a
chapter in which all the caliphs are related to the years in which they ruled with an example of a coin from
their reign so that the stylistic evolution of each period can be observed.
Finally, many of the names that appear on the coins are added: viziers, governors, rebels, etc.
So, it is a simple work, without great pretensions, a simple, very concise guide to a very broad historical period.
For this reason, I apologize for the errors that I have made in its writing, but it is exposed to the public hoping
it may be useful to the reader.
Juan Fernando Martínez Atienza
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