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Some Greek and bilingual Arab-Byzantine bronze coins of Damascus and Hims-Emesa: some new examples of iconography and palaeography, with reference to some Byzantine issues of the late 6th and 7th centuries
Trombley, Frank R.
2012
Abstract
There
is practically nothing in the historical sources about his having shown an
interest in minting bronze coins. (WALKER 1956: p. xxv) There has been some
discussion about the issuing authority and chronology of the bronze coinage of Mu‘$wiya’s forty years as governor and caliph. The first bronze issues of
urban mints have a terminus ante quem in the last years of his governorship,
that is, in the 650s CE, to judge from an apparent hoard edited by Phillips and
Goodman. (PHILLIPS-GOODMAN 1997)
The earliest forms of this coinage have been called Type I, Pseudo-
Byzantine or ‘imitative’ issues, which Tony Goodwin has divided into nine
distinct series, Types A-I (GOODWIN 2005: pp. 16-17) An important series of
these, Type B, imitations – often crudely – the obverse of Herakeios’ coins of
Cyprus bearing the triple imperial image of Herakleios, Herakleios Constantine
and Martina (HAHN 1981: 198a-b. FOSS 2008, nos. 3-4. ALBUM-GOODWIN 2002:
nos. 505-506. GOODWIN 2005: no. 2). A more extensive series, Goodwin’s Types I
D-F, bears the obverse image of emperor Constans II copied from the standard
bronze coinage of the mint of Constantinople in first eight years of his reign.
Series
Polymnia: Numismatica antica e medievale. Studi
3
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Frank R. Trombley, "Some Greek and bilingual Arab-Byzantine bronze coins of Damascus and Hims-Emesa: some new examples of iconography and palaeography, with reference to some Byzantine issues of the late 6th and 7th centuries", in Bruno Callegher e Arianna D'Ottone (a cura di): The 3rd Simone Assemani Symposium on Islamic Coins, Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2012, pp. 58-76.
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