A Manual of Musalman Numismatics 9781463230999

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A Manual of Musalman Numismatics

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A Manual of Musalman Numismatics

Oliver Codrington

Gorgias Press LLC, 954 River Road, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA www.gorgiaspress.com G&C Kiraz is an imprint of Gorgias Press LLC Copyright © 2012 by Gorgias Press LLC Originally published in 1904 All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise without the prior written permission of Gorgias Press LLC. 2012

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ISBN 978-1-61143-253-4

ISSN 1937-3287

Reprinted from the 1904 London edition.

Printed in the United States of America

PREFACE.

r j l l l l S book is intended for the lielp of those who, not being Arabic or Persian scholars, would like to know something about the Oriental coins which may come in their way, as well as of others who with a knowledge of these languages find difficulties in the lettering, arrangements, and reading of the legends, which are often so different in these respects from the plain writing of a MS. or the print of a book, and in the meanings of marks and symbols which are to be found on coins. It originated in notes, made during several years, in a copy of that valuable but now scarce book, "Elements de la Numismatique Musulmane," by F. Soret, Brussels, 1864, a reprint from Revue

de la JSfumismatique

Beige,

ser. iv, tome ii. Considerable correspondence from India and at home, personal references made to me, and the remembrance of my own troubles when, beginning to work at Oriental coins some years ago in India without much aid from books, have guided me as to what might be most usefully included in such a Manual as this. The book will, I hope, be found useful, as one of ready reference, to Oriental numismatists generally, in the same way as Soret's has been to those who had a copy of it. My thanks are due to Mr. Guy Le Strange and Mr. EL F. Amedroz for information regarding the location of somemint towns, and to the latter also for help in Arabic legends.. 0.

C.

INDEX. J'AGE

I'.HiK

Abjad

115

Koranic Sentences

Abtas

116

Kufic Coins, Hint? lor

Alaraat and Arnvun Alphabet Bibliography Bismillah

77 1

233 20

3 58

Languages used

14

Marks of Genuineness

...

Mint Marks

Christian Era

Mint Towns, List of

Chronograms

115

Mint Towns, Titles of

7

reading-

Lakab

205

Ciphers

i:)

9 ¡8 127

...

198

Mintage, Place and Time of...

125 208

Classification of Coinages ...

47

Months, Names of

Counter-marks

53

Months, Names of, on Mysore

Cycle Years

206

Coinage in Abjad and Abtas

Dates

208

Morphology of Coins

Denominations of Coins

117

Names, Proper

56

8

Names of God

40

Diacritical Marks Eras Fraehn's Conspectus Classium

203 48

Hijra and Christian Years,

...

Numbers

209 12

4

Ornamentation

17

Pious Expressions or Ejaculations

30

Table of

212

Poetical Legends

94

Hijra Era

203

Proper Names

56

3

Regal Titles

77

08

Regnal Years

Hints for reading Kuiic Coins Honorary Titles Ilahi Era Imams, Twelve Isolated Letters and Words ...

205

210

Religious Legends

20

44

SamvatEra

205

9

Spanish Era

205

Kalimah

21

Symbols

Khalifs, Abbasid

91

Table of H i j r a and Christian

Khalifs, Egyptian Abbasid ..

92

Khalifs, Four

43

Titles of Mint Towns

...

198

Khalifs, Umayyad

90

Types and Varieties of Coins...

11

Khanian Era

204

18

Years

212

EKBATÀ.

Page 12, line 21, for on Coins read of Coins. „

17, line 6, for Hafsidi read Haisid.

„

31, line 9, for ti>U^ read U

|Uiì.

31, last line, for lïJb read UJ'j . ,,

39, line 1, for c ^ L u j ^ read 41, line 17, for *

.

.Jjl read

„

48, line 25, for (xhaznawi read Ghaznawid.

,,

51, line 19, for Julayhid read Sulayliid.

,,

54, line 2, for Yaku read Yakub.

„

57, lines 5 and 15, for ¿Lsr'i read j'^s-'l

,,

82, line 24, for ^ » J ^ read

„

91, line 18, for ¡Jjs.-4! read j ' - s * ^ .

„

127, line 22, for 44° 35' read 42° 27'.

„

127, line 23, for 67° 20' read 68° 10'.

,, 129, line 10, for

. .

read JosO.^ j l .

,,

129, last line but 4, for Eodgers read Rogers.

,,

133, after line 27 insert : Allahabad.

In ÏT.W. Provinces, India,

25° 2 6 ' ; 81° 55'E.

Deali Emperors.

,,

134, line 6, for Siras read Sivas.

,,

134, last line but 1, for Eodgers read Rogers.

,,

149, after line 22 insert : Junaghar. In Kathia war, India. 21°31'K; 70° 36' E.

^b!*!!.

Dehli Emperors.

Local

Eajah. 157, line 27, for Dieval read Diwal. 160, line 13, for Morocco read Mecca.

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