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 Richard 2012. 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. Presented at: The 3rd Simone Assemani Symposium on Islamic Coins, Rome, Italy, 23-24 September 2011. Published in: Callegher, Bruno and D'Ottone, Arianna eds. 3rd Simone Assemani Symposium on Islamic Coins [proceedings]. Polymnia. Numismatica antica e medievale: studi (3) Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, pp. 58-76.

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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.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > History, Archaeology and Religion
Uncontrolled Keywords:	urban mints; Constans II; Syria and Palestine; bronze coinage
Publisher:	Edizioni Università di Trieste
ISBN:	9788883034596
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Last Modified:	25 Oct 2016 03:12
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/48382

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