Ebook: The Islamic coins (Athenian Agora)

American School of Classical Studies at Athens — 1962 — 61 pp. — ASIN: B0006CM956"The present catalogue is in a sense the continuation of the catalogue of coins found in the Athenian Agora published by Miss Margaret Thompson in 1954, The Athenian Agora: Results of the Excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens,Volume II, Coins from the Roman through the Venetian Period. Miss Thompson's volume dealt with the Roman, Byzantine, Frankish, Mediaeval European and Venetian coins. It was in the spring of 1954 that on Professor Homer A. Thompson's invitation I stopped briefly at the Agora on my way home from a year in Egypt and made a quick survey of the Islamic coins found in the excavations. During the two weeks spent in Athens on that occasion I looked rapidly through the coins and reported that despite their somewhat unalluring appearance and their relative insignificance with respect to the history of the Agora as whole, they constituted a body of material, almost all of it Turkish, which could not very well be ignored and which was probably not without some purely numismatic interest, however obscure. In the next few years some effort was made, but without success, to find a competent student to prepare a catalogue of these coins. In the end I volunteered to undertake the work myself; and during the autumn of 1958 and the latter half of 1960 I was able to spend several months at the Agora examining and classifying the coins. The introductory matter and the catalogue were finally completed in Princeton and New York in 1961."