Recently Islamic numismatics has seen a remarkable editorial vivacity. Particularly worth citing are Giulio Bernardi’s Corpus of researches of gold monetization (Arabic Gold Coins), a huge census of publications covering countless auctions, and the Sylloge of coins in the Ashmolean Museum. 4. Later ‘Abbasid Precious Metal coinage (from 219 AH) by Nicol. As there are significant differences in both in the methods used and in the information available, this Index coordinates the contents of both publications and facilitates access to the data of these two essential reference works.
