An imitation of an 'Abbāsid gold dinar of 789–90/792–3 w/ added crosses, thought to have been struck in Englandpic.twitter.com/u0fXf0U8BI
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An imitation of an 'Abbāsid gold dinar of 789–90/792–3 w/ added crosses, thought to have been struck in Englandpic.twitter.com/u0fXf0U8BI
An 8th/9thC Anglo-Carolingian cross brooch w/ Arabic inscription, found Ballycottin, Ireland https://voxhiberionacum.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/cork-carolingian-connections/ …pic.twitter.com/otwG12ZYvw
Al-Idrisi mentions Irish towns where 'ships used to put in' & buy amber—ref to 9thC Dublin? http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/03/some-imitation-islamic-coins.html …pic.twitter.com/WhhBtl9kuv
The 11thC geographer al-'Udhri's detailed description of an early medieval Irish whale-hunt (trans. D. M. Dunlop)pic.twitter.com/LTClSfO0lQ
A 16thC copy of al-Idrisi's original 12thC Arabic map of Ireland, from Oxford's MS Pococke 375: http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet/s/6uyzd6 …pic.twitter.com/XQ3tFNuWgD
Imitation of gold dinar of the caliph Al Mahdi(775-785) - 166H(?)/783 AD. Simons gallery.pic.twitter.com/rfReI4NJGT
Imitation(struck to Volga Bulgaria?) of silver dirham of the Samanids,minted to Al Shash modern Tashkent,Uzbekistan in the time of amir Abu Ibrahim Ismail ibn Ahmad Samani(892-907).The coin is from Erevan City district - repulic Armenia and is kept a bulgarian private collection.pic.twitter.com/FwI4QD5ySY
Very interesting, thank you for sharing :)
Dr. Green,one single chinese early medieval coin have and from the medieval bulgarian capital Veliko Tarnovo City district - Northern Bulgaria. The coin is YUAN PAO of emperor Kao Tsu(907-918) with dating 912-913.
The coin is kept a private http://collection.My article for this artefact will is through the next year - 2019.
Oh, how fabulous!! Please do.let me know when it is published, I would love to read! :)
@caitlinrgreen Heavy concentration round Narbonne, which was a Muslim city 719-59.
@Dai_James1942 Yes, lots in that area and Italy, then a few in France/Germany, then another concentration in Britain... interesting, no?
@caitlinrgreen Is that one at Lincoln? Up the River Witham no doubt.
@Tweets2CV Ah, alas, none thus far from Lincoln---one from Leicestershire and a fair East Anglian scatter :)
Why would they mint fake Islamic coins?
Some discussion of this in the article :) Trade? Status? Etc etc
Yeah I got a bit confused with the trade aspect, I'd have thought gold was gold regardless of its shape. You have some brilliant articles
Hiya. When you say "imitation" are you being polite about state currency fraud ?
It's a bit like the North Koreans issuing "imitation" $ for trade purposes.
Potentially so, though Offa definitively marked his coin as his own production...
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