EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Coinage of the Iranian Huns and their Successors from Bactria to Gandhara, 4th to 8th century CE, Volume II only by Klaus Vondrovec, edited by Michael Alram and Judith A. Lerner, Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, Vienna, 2014. The second volume of this important specialist reference covers the later sections of the series, with particular focus on the Western Turk period and Gandharan copper coinage, followed by the typological overview, indices and bibliography. Based on the wider Aman ur Rahman Collection study, the work is richly illustrated and provides a detailed numismatic treatment of one of the most complex and historically important coinages of Central Asia, linking Bactria, Gandhara, the post-Hephthalite world, the Western Turks and related successor issues. Although offered here as Volume II only and not as the complete set, it remains a highly useful working reference for collectors, dealers and scholars handling Iranian Hun, Nezak, Western Turk and Gandharan copper material.

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