EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Sylloge Nummorum Sasanidarum, Tajikistan: Sasanian Coins and their Imitations from Sogdiana and Tocharistan, Andrea Gariboldi (Vienna, Verlag der ?sterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2017), large 4to pictorial hardback, 189 pp, ISBN 978-3-7001-8009-8, printed on acid-free coated stock. A tightly focused SNS sub-volume devoted to material from present-day Tajikistan, bringing together Sasanian coins and a wide range of local and post-Sasanian imitations from Sogdiana and Tocharistan, with excellent high-resolution photography and a full scholarly apparatus. The book sets the scene with introductory essays and then moves into a clear, typology-based catalogue with fully described entries, legends and countermarks, selected hoards (including an appendix on the Corgul?tepa hoard in the State Hermitage Museum), and thorough indices, abbreviations, and bibliography, making it a practical, specialist reference for Central Asian circulation from late Sasanian into early Islamic times. Condition about new, bright crisp boards, sharp corners, tight binding, and clean unmarked interiors.

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