Watch List notes:

Schwarz, Florian, Sylloge Numorum Arabicorum Tübingen: Balkh und die Landschaften am oberen Oxus, Tubingen, 2002, 180 pages, 77 plates, softcover. Volume 14c. 1500+ coins listed. The volume describes and illustrates on 181 pages and 79 b/w plates 1,526 Islamic coins minted in what corresponds to modern northern Afghanistan and Tadjikistan; about half of the coins were minted in Balkh, the other mints are Andaraba, Badakhshan, Tashqurghan, Tirmidh, Hisar, Khuttal, Rasht, Saghaniyan, Tayiqan, Kishm, Wakhsh, Walwalij / Qunduz, and al-Yun/Khust ("lands on the Upper Oxus", as the German title translates). It contains sections on multiple dirhams (ca. 170) with all die links (a separate study is under way), but the Balkh coinage is the most important part of the book (e.g. the Seljuk and Janid periods). The dynasties covered are Abbasid, Banijurid, Samanid, Saffarid, Ghaznavid, Umayyad, Great Seljuq, Khwarizmshahs, Chaghatayid, Shah of Badakhshan, Timurid, Safavid, Civic coppers, Qarakhanid, Ghorid of Bamiyan, Amir of Balkh, Chingizid, Ilkhan, Shaybanid, Janid, Taghaytimurid, Walid, Amir of Qunduz, Khuttal, Muhtajid, Amir of Wakhsh, and Amirs of al-Yun. Useful work arranged by mint from the Umayyad through Savafid & Mughal periods covering Andaraba to al-Yun, Balkh and the Regions of the Upper Oxus. Text in German.

Estimate: 75-100 USD