EARLY MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC. Coins of Iran After the Mongol Invasion, Volume 9 (Sylloge of Islamic Coins in the Ashmolean Museum) A major and highly important reference on later Islamic coinage, this substantial volume catalogues nearly 1800 coins struck between the 13th and 19th centuries across Iran, Afghanistan, and neighbouring regions, covering the Ilkhanid, Timurid, Qara Quyunlu, Aq Quyunlu, Safavid, Qajar, Durrani, and Barakzay dynasties. The material is arranged by mint and in chronological order within each mint, and is supported by six maps and an index of names and titles, making the work especially practical for both scholarly consultation and collector use. The introduction is of particular value, serving not only as a guide to the catalogue itself but also as a thoughtful framework for the study of monetary history in the post-Mongol Islamic world, where coinage begins to offer especially rich evidence for the policies behind monetary production. Drawn entirely from the holdings of the Heberden Coin Room at the Ashmolean Museum, including the important Thorburn collection, this volume forms the second in the projected Sylloge series devoted to one of the great public collections of Islamic coins, together with the renowned collection of Samir Shamma, and remains an essential work for collectors, researchers, and specialists in Islamic numismatics.

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