Craftsmen and Coins: Signed Dies in the Iranian World (Third to the Fifth Centuries Ah)
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The engravers' signatures discussed in this book were inscribed over a thousand years ago on the metal surfaces of coin dies which measured no more than three and half centimetres in diameter. Although not a single signed die has survived to the present day, a small number of the many thousands of coins made from them remain in coin collections all over the world. What do these tiny marks have to tell us about the early medieval Islamic world? In...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:3700169590
ISBN13:9783700169598
Release Date:February 2012
Publisher:Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Length:124 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 8.2" x 11.6"
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