Arab-Sasanian Numismatics and History during the Early Islamic Period in Iran and Iraq  (ed. Susan Tyler-Smith)

The Johnson Collection of Arab-Sasanian Coins

HODGE MEHDI MALEK

ROYAL NUMISMATIC SOCIETY

SPECIAL PUBLICATION NO. 55

London, 2019

ISSN 0080 4487

ISBN 0 901405 94 9

RRP: £95

This is the first major work to attempt a comprehensive study of the Arab-Sasanian silver coinage since Walker's 1941 Catalogue of the British Museum collection. It includes the latest research on the subject, both historical (chapters 1-4) and numismatic (chapters 5-15). All the coins (over 1,600), both silver drachms and copper fulus, in the Johnson collection are illustrated on the excellent plates. Where the Johnson collection does not have a specimen of an important coin an example is illustrated from another source, making this a truly important work.