Tag: Islamic coins

Stack’s Bowers Galleries announces a special auction in September 2024 focused on Islamic and Central Asian coinage. Anchored by a large selection of historical...

The American Numismatic Society (ANS) is deeply saddened to announce the passing of Dr. Jere L. Bacharach on April 9, 2023. Dr. Bacharach was...

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek ..... AT THE BEGINNING of the 14th century (c. 1300 CE), Anatolia (modern Türkiye) was a patchwork of “beyliks”, small,...

In their role as an official auctioneer of the New York International Numismatic Convention (NYINC), Stack’s Bowers Galleries realized strong prices across the numismatic...

By Numismatica Genevensis SA ......   Anyone interested in truly top-class numismatics will have been following Numismatica Genevensis’ auctions for years. They are a pretty rare...

By David Yoon for American Numismatic Society (ANS) ......   Some questions seem too obvious to be worth asking. Everyone knows that a mint is a...

By David Yoon for American Numismatic Society (ANS) ...... This essay is being written on December 31, 2021, to be posted on January 4, 2022....

By Ellen Nye and David Yoon for American Numismatic Society (ANS) ...... In August 2018, as the country of Turkey faced a currency crisis, its...

By Oliver Hoover for American Numismatic Society (ANS) ...... On April 1, 2021, the Associated Press ran a story about a handful of small silver...

By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....   The Dokos Shipwreck, the oldest in the world, was discovered by the father of underwater archaeology, Peter Throckmorton, after...

By Jay Turner for PCGS ......   AH1299 (1882) 10 D Lec-188 Paris Morocco PCGS MS64 The Hijri Lunar Dating System The Hijri lunar dating system is the...

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek ..... The Mughal (or “Moghul") Empire ruled much of South Asia for over three centuries. Mughal emperors accumulated vast wealth,...

By Numismatica Genevensis SA ......   On January 28, the exhibition 'Coins of Islam: History Revealed' opened at Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Centre in Abu Dhabi....

By Hubert Walker for CoinWeek .... On Sunday, December 29--the fourth night of Hanukkah--the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced the discovery of seven Islamic gold...

Numismatic Guaranty Corporation® (NGC®) has certified an extremely rare and historically important Islamic gold coin struck in the seventh century. The Umayyad Dinar is dated...

A special three-day auction event at Heritage's Dallas World Headquarters (3500 Maple Avenue) kicks off on Wednesday, November 7 with two floor sessions devoted...

The American Numismatic Society (ANS) is pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of The Colonial Newsletter (CNL). Founded in 1960, CNL...

Description: Algeria is a predominantly Muslim country located on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa. It’s neighbors to the east are Tunisia and Libya. To...

By Coin & Currency Institute .... The previous edition of Gold Coins of the World, by Arthur L. Friedberg and Ira S. Friedberg, was published...

Islamic Gold Dinar By Everett Millman - Gainesville Coins ....... One major development in the global gold market over the last decade has been the liberalization...

CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz .....   MANY ANCIENT COINS circulated in a narrow area, sometimes just a single city-state of a few thousand...

CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz .....   But you know, Lieutenant, in the Arab city of Cordoba were two miles of public lighting in...

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek ..... On August 31, 2015 the so-called “Islamic State in Iraq and Syria” or “Daesh”, which claims to be a...

By Hubert Walker for CoinWeek ....   In a press release issued Tuesday, February 17, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) reported that the largest treasure of...

CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz .....   BY THE BEGINNING of the seventh century CE, the lands of the Eastern Mediterranean had been ravaged...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek ..... The news exists--or should exist--to produce an informed populace, under the assumption that a populace needs...

Fresh to the numismatic market, a collection of coins of Morocco will join more than 500 lots of Islamic, Indian, and world coins and medals in...

Single gold dinar alone estimated at £280,000 Specialist London auctioneers Morton & Eden will sell three of the earliest and rarest Islamic gold coins in...

A Weekly CoinWeek Column by Greg Reynolds News and Analysis regarding scarce coins, coin markets, and the coin collecting community #150 ….. Last Thursday, I was...

An unprecedented selection of high-grade ancient and world coins — ranging from the dawn of numismatics to most modern corners of the globe and...