Après une brève introduction aux fondamentaux du monnayage sassanide, l’article aborde le problème de la présence possible de thématiques militaires dans la typologie de ces monnaies. Ce monnayage ...n’ayant généralement pas la même fonction commémorative que, par exemple, la monnaie romaine à l’époque du principat, on ne peut guère s’attendre à des conclusions marquantes. Quelques types monétaires pourraient toutefois être liés à des aspects militaires de la royauté sassanide. Toujours en contraste avec la frappe impériale romaine, il ne semble pas y avoir de lien étroit entre les ateliers monétaires sassanides et les lieux de concentration des forces militaires. Enfin sont discutés quelques cas d’influence mutuelle entre les monnaies d’or et d’argent sassanides et romaines ou byzantines.
The use of Byzantine copper coins as flans for pre-reform issues of the early Islamic period is well-known. Also, overstrikes on Late Roman antoniniani and folles, especially by the earliest purely ...Islamic fulus of 'Abd al-Malik (685-705), have already attracted some attention. Here, however, a much rarer phenomenon will be discussed, namely the overstrike of an Abbasid fals on a maiorina of the late fourth century AD.
The remains (32 coins) of a Samanid dirham hoard from Central Europe were discovered in the coin cabinet of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna in 2011 while searching for another hoard. The coins ...are mostly well preserved: a few specimens are partially or even fully corroded but none are pierced.
The present paper discusses a rare coin type of the first Sasanian ruler, Ardashir I, which has long been believed to depict, and maybe even name, the future king Shapur I alongside his father. The ...analysis of several silver drachms shows that the right-hand part of the obverse legend names an Ardashir who is given the title sk̀ n MRKA, i.e. Ardashir Sakanshah. This man is known also from Shapur I's inscription on the Kaaba-i Zardusht. The coins discussed here are the first to depict a local ruler together with the king of kings in Sasanian Iran.
This article discusses the Sasanian coinage from the region of Sakastan during the latter part of the 4th and the 5th century AD. Only through a comprehensive collection of material and a detailed ...re-evaluation of already examined coins was it possible to reconstruct a continuous series of Sakastan coins stretching from Ardashir II (379–383) to Wahram V (420–438). The implications of this numismatic evidence for our understanding of the history of Sakastan in this period are discussed in some detail, also taking into account further numismatic data from Eastern Iran.
A brief essay is presented that studies 73 small Ottoman silver coins. They are believed to be from a larger lot. It is believed that these coins were picked from the larger collection because they ...are identifiable. They likely originated in the Balkan Peninsula.
The Austrian excavations at Ephesus have so far yielded few coin hoards, despite the importance of Ephesus as one of the major urban centres of the Eastern Mediterranean for more than a millennium. ...In 2016 a hoard, deposited in early Byzantine times, was discovered during excavations on the upper Agora. In all probability, the coins were originally placed in a small bag made of organic material. They were discovered in the space between two wall facings of the southern wall of the south stoa. Since the find circumstances are unambiguous, there is no doubt that the hoard was deposited from above and, therefore, the colonnade must have been cleared away and the bulk of the building material removed by this point. This is of great importance for the settlement history, because we can now assume that the upper Agora of Ephesus had lost its original function by the 520s, and that consequently the removal of stone material from the public buildings was permitted. The present parcel of 160 coins is thus of great interest, on the one hand because of its archaeological relevance, and on the other hand because it represents an almost archetypical hoard from the early sixth century. Publication Abstract
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