4to. xiii, 334 pp., 50 b/w plates hors text, numerous drawings & tables, cloth in slightly soiled d/w, small tear to jacket at top spine, otherwise copy clean inside and in very good condition, Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication No:12, London, first edition, 1980.

Synopsis

The Coinage of Saladin and his successors in the Fertile Crescent and Arabia is among the most complex and interesting of the medieval Islamic world. The author brings together material from major public and private collections of the world in a comprehensive catalogue of this coinage. He also studies the historical and economic background to the issues. [Jacket].