The Mardin Hoard. Islamic countermarks on byzantine folles.

Lowick, N.M., Bendall, S. & Whitting, P.D.

A. H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd. 1977.

In-8, pp. 79, copertina flessibile.

Lingua: Inglese.

Nuovo. New.

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This is an indispensable work in identifying the Islamic countermarks on Byzantine folles. Very high level of scholarship and easy reading.

CONTENTS:

PART I - THE "MARDIN" HOARD

1. Recent discoveries pf countermarked pieces
2. Publications
3. Collections and groups of countermarked pieces
4. Islamic countermarks adn the "Mardin" Hoard
5. Details of the hoard
6. Some problems

PART II - THE COINS

1. The Pre-Anonymous coins
2. The Anonymous Folles and other Imperial issues
3. The Islamic coins

PART III - THE COUNTERMARKS

• Islamic countermarking
• Notes on each of the 28 countermarks individually
• Allocation of countermarks to dynasties and mints - limitations of area and timespan, and reasons, religious and economic for the practice

TABLES

• Concordance of countermark classifications
• Imperial and Anonymous types found in the Hoard
• Islamic Countermarks
• Diagram showing overstriking of countermarks and key to diagram
• "Martin Hoard" - Coins with one / two / three / four and five countermarks

MAP OF ANATOLIA in the Twelfth Century showing principal Mints

PLATES

• Uncountermaked coins - some variants of Anonymous Follis Class A (ii)
• Uncourtermarked coins, including two contemporary forgeries
• Uncountermarked coins, including Constantine X and Alexius I
• Countermarks 1-15
• Countermarks 16-28
• Multiple Countermarks
• Multiple Countermarks and uncountermarked Islamic coins in the hoard
• Islamic coins not from the "Mardin" hoard, illustrating the use of countermarks