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Schwarz, Florian, Sylloge Numorum Arabicorum Tuebingen: Balh und die Landschaften am oberen Oxus, XIVc Hurasan III, Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen, 2002, 180 pgs, 77 plates, softcover large format. The volume describes and illustrates 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, 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, Amirs of al-Yun. Text in German, ex James Farr Numismatic Library.

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