EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Sylloge of Islamic Coins in the Ashmolean, Volume 4. Oxford, 2012. Quarto, casebound with jacket, 14 pages plus 4 pages of maps, and 79 plates with accompanying text. An important and very useful continuation of the Ashmolean Islamic sylloge series, cataloguing more than 1,700 Abbasid gold and silver coins dated between 219 and 656 AH, together with a small group of late Abbasid copper issues. Based on the holdings of the Heberden Coin Room and the Shamma Collection, the material is arranged in a clear and practical manner by caliph and year, under mint names in Arabic alphabetical order, making it a dependable reference for attribution and study of the later Abbasid series. A very attractive scholarly volume, clean, fresh, and well kept overall.

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