Pet Project: Islamic Coins From The Caliphate Of Córdoba

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bennycunha97 Valued Member Portugal 51 Posts	Posted 12/23/2021 8:08 pm Hello everyone! I have been gaining a lot of interest lately about islamic iberian coins. To my dismay, there are few resources online, so I have been getting some books and working from there. But it got me thinking and I decided to at least try and improve one of my favourite online catalogues: numista! With some nice steady work I got invited to be a numista referee for these kinds of coins and so I'm in a great position to improve the situation! But enough about me and numista, I thought I might as well share this elsewhere so here goes. One of the most important things to do when you get a coin from the caliphate of Córdoba is to find the mint and reign, and so this is a little cheat sheet to do so: al-Andalus (mint): Madinat al-Zahra (mint): 'Abd al-Rahman (monarch, 316-350 AH): al-Hakam (monarch, 350-366 AH) Hisham (monarch, 366-399 and 400-403 AH): Muhammad (monarch, 399-400 AH): Sulayman (400 and 403-407 AH): Ali (407-408 AH): al-Qasim (408-412 and 413-414 AH): Yahya (412-413 and 416-417 AH): In between there are some other monarchs with repeated names that lasted very little time in the throne like Abd al-Rahman IV and V (a few days and 47 days on the throne respectively), Muhammad III (who actually lasted longer than Muhammad II) and Hisham III (4 and a half years). I hope this is interesting to someone in here! I will post a reply with some coins as a challenge for you all to try and put this into practice! Benny Report this Post to the Staff

bennycunha97 Valued Member Portugal 51 Posts	Posted 12/23/2021 8:24 pm Here is a little challenge to whoever wants to try it out! Try and find the monarchs and mints of the following coins. The file names kind of give them away a bit so no peeking! Edit: one at a time to not clog this and to make it last longer :) Edited by bennycunha97 12/23/2021 8:28 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Spence Moderator United States 34453 Posts	Posted 12/23/2021 8:25 pm @benny, this is a fun idea for a thread, but better would be to space things out a bit by only showing one coin prior to folks working through the mints. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push." -----Ghanaian proverb "The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed." -----King Adz Report this Post to the Staff
bennycunha97 Valued Member Portugal 51 Posts	Posted 12/23/2021 8:29 pm @Spence you're right, edited the reply and will post them slowly :D By the way not all of them are easy, some look somewhat different from the very neat cut outs I made and on some I'll be a real meanie Report this Post to the Staff
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