# /0 " #! "# $ %& ' (& ) * + ,! - - / . ' ( # #- . ( # 1 # ONS News Oxford Meeting This meeting took place on 16 April 20111 at the Ashmolean Museum. The focus of the day was Dr Paul ul Stevens' extensive collection which resides in the Ashmolean as a long-term loan and the papers drew their inspiration from it. The papers pa were: 1. 'The first phase of Mughal-Afghan confli flict in North India numismatic insights' - Stan Goron 2. 'The Rohillas - political history, min ints and coinage' Shailendra Bhandare 3. 'The Allahabad mint - coins struck unde der British control' Paul Stevens In addition, the book Felicitas, published in honour h of Joe Cribb (see below, p. 3) was formally presented. Farhad Sediqy, Curator for Numi mismatics at the National Museum in Kabul, informing the meetingg about a that museum’s collections Oriental Numismatic Conferenc nce in Ukraine A conference, with the title “RA RASMIR: Oriental numismatics”, will be held in Odessa on 29-311 July 2011 at the facilities of the Odessa National University. Thi his conference is being held under the auspices of the Russian-speaki king site on Oriental Numismatics WWW.RASMIR.RU with the support sup of ZENO.RU., the Odessa National University and the ON NS. Specialists in the fields of oriental numismatics, sigillograp raphy, history, archaeology, and interface disciplines are invitedd as well as collectors and other interested parties. Russian-Engl glish translation will be made available if required. The following fields are the subject su of the conference: Jan Lingen and the Editor with the newly pub ublished copies of Felicitas · · · · · Numismatics of Islamic dynastie ties; Numismatics of pre-Islamic Pers ersia; Numismatics of China; Ottoman numismatics; History and archaeology of Eas astern Europe in the light of numismatic data. The organising committee comp mprises Andrey Krivenko, Irakli Paghava, Alexander Kazarov,, Alexey Alyoshin, Alexander Akopyan, Evgueni Goncharov,, Yevgen Lemberg and Vadim Yuklyanyuk. More information ion can be found online at http://rasmircoins.ucoz.ru/forum/2 /2-5656-1 and the organising committee may be contacted at : pplanar73@gmail.com A cultural programme is bein ing planned as an accompaniment to the conference as well as a dinner at a Ukrainian national Paul Stevens ensuring that those present learnt nt how the mintname Allahabad was engraved on Mugha hal coins 1 ) would have got it so wrong? Could there really have been two couplets used for such a short puppet “reign”? If this coin does turn out to be genuine, then it is a very important discovery. Some of us, however, still need convincing] CONTENTS OF JOURNAL 207 Page ONS meeting, Oxford 2011 1 ONS conference Ukraine 2011 1 New and recent publications 2 Auction news 3 Book review: K.K. Maheshwari Imitation in continuity - tracking the silver coinage of early medieval India (J. Cribb) 4 Corrigendum 5 An emergency coinage in Antioch AD 540-542, by S.J. Mansfield 6 New mint names for a Marinid half dirham type, by Ludovic Liétard 10 A new type for Marinid or early Wattasid silver coinage, by Ludovic Liétard 12 A new coin type of Dimitri I, King of Georgia: addendum, by I. Paghava, S. Turkia & G. Zlobin 12 A unique half dirham from the mint of Nakhjawan with the ulugh mangyl ulus bek legend, by I. Paghava & G. Janjgava 14 The Mongol conquest of Balkh according to numismatic sources, by Anton Grachev 15 The archaic punch-marked coins of KukaXi, MinF river valley: part 1, by Amol Bankar 19 Gandhara and Indo-Greek fantasy coins, by Hans Loeschner 29 The Indo-Parthian coins in the British Museum, by Wannaporn Rienjang 30 Some recently discovered coins of the Sultans of Madura, Gujarat (and Khandesh), by Shailendra Bhandare 31 Some sultanate coins that refer to Sylhet, by Russel Haque & Nicholas Rhodes 34 A copper coin of Murshidabad, by Nicholas Rhodes 37 Coins of the Sikhs: Zarb Sri Ambratsar Jiyo, by Gurprit Singh Dora 37 Locally struck coinage of the Maldives: a die study of the final issues, by Peter Budgen 41 The discovery of a rupee of the Mughal claimant, Nikusiyar, by Jan Lingen & Dr Munaf Billoo 46 Officers of the Society Secretary General: Nicholas Rhodes, ladenlarhodes@hotmail.com Regional Secretaries: General: Mr. R. Senior, Butleigh Court Tower, Butleigh, Glastonbury, BA6 8SA, UK rcsenior@yahoo.com Europe: Mr. J. Lingen, lingen@wxs.nl U.K. & Eire: Mr. P. Smith, pnsmith755@aol.com America: Mr. C. Karukstis, charlie@charliek.com South Asia: Dr Dilip Rajgor, drajgor@hotmail.com Pakistan Chapter: Mr. S. M. Mirza, shafqatmirza@hotmail.com Annual Subscription: UK: £25; rest of Europe €30; American continent $35; for other areas please consult the appropriate Regional Secretary Website: www.onsnumis.org Printed by Pardy & Son (Printers), Ringwood, UK. 48 Marinid dynasty which coincid ided with the beginning of the Wattasids and their occupation of o ADElF, the possibility that this new type was struck by the first rst Wattasid ruler, MuQammad alShaykh (AH 876-910 / AD 1472-15 1504), cannot be discarded. Furthermore, according to Pen ena and Vega [5], the mint name which we have read here as ADElF ElF (G 8 ) can sometimes be read as G which may be an alternativee spelling s for G (SlF, or SFlé, also in north Morocco and not far from m ADElF). Reverse: G8 N References [1] Arroyo, Henri: ‘Un trésor de dirh rhams de la fin de l'empire mérinide’, Revue Numismatique, VI° série, Tomee XVI, 1974, 115-122. [2] El Hadri, Mohamed: Les monnaies ies mérinides dans l'histoire monétaire du Maroc (13ème – 15ème siècle), Thès hèse de doctorat d'Histoire, Université Lumière-Lyon II (France), 2007. [3] Hohertz, Edmund: A catalog off the square islamic coins of Spain, Portugal, and North Africa, 1130 30-1816 A.D., The Wooster Book Company, 2008. [4] Mitchiner, Michael: Oriental coins coi and their values: the world of Islam, Hawkins, 1977. [5] Pena, Salvador & Vega, Miguel uel: ‘A dirham, presumably Marinid, struck in Sla (Sale, Morocco)’, Journal Jou of the Oriental Numismatic Society, n° 191, Spring 2007. Fig. 6 (coin 6) Obverse: N MO (5 Reverse: A NEW COIN TYPE OF O DIMITRI I, KING OF GEORGIA: A: ADDENDUM G8 N By Irakli Paghava, Severian ian Turkia, Gennadiy Zlobin This coin 6 can be considered a variant since ce the name does not fill the entire space of the second line onn the obverse. These five coins define this new type as follows: In 2009 we published a new coin oin type of Dimitri [Demetre] I21, 22 King of Georgia in 1125-1155,, 1155-1156 1 . Our arguments for this attribution were presented inn the original paper23. Since then, 3 new specimens of this type hav have come to our attention. These new coins are quite valuable as the they • are somewhat different in terms te of design, and hence present a different and individual subtype; su • provide us with an oppo portunity to read the previously illegible fragment of the lege gend, and quite an important one. We, therefore, consider it approp opriate to publish these specimens as an addendum to our earlier woork. When we were studying thee available specimens of the new type back in 2009, combining and a reconstructing the surviving legends and the design elements re revealed the following coin type24 (cf. fig. 1): New type Obverse: N Our leader is God MO (5 May He be exalte lted Reverse: G8 N ADElF Our leader is God The different weights and sizes of coins 2, 2 3, 4, 5 and 6 are given in table 1. coin 2 coin 3 coin 4 coin 5 coin 6 Size 12 x 9 mm 11 x 10 mm 11 x 11 mm 10 x 10 mm 13 x 10 mm Weight 0.39 g 0.48 g 0.61 g 0.64 g 0.42 g Fig. 1 Obv.: Marginal legend (off-flan lan or effaced on all available specimens)? Within plain circle in centre: Table 1. Sizes and weights for the coins of the new type Conclusion The style and legends of the coins published ab above are very close to those of coin 1 (fig. 1), which was attributed ted to the Marinids by both Hohertz and Mitchiner. The obverse legend leg is exactly the same while the reverse legend differs (but in the same style). The results shown in table 1 allow us too cconclude that these coins are fractions of a dirham (since the fu full Marinid dirham weighs 1.5 g.) probably of the Marinid dynast asty and struck in the north of Morocco (Asila). As these half dirhams are anonymous, their th attribution to a particular ruler remains to be determined. Moreover, M because, according to Arroyo, coin 1 could be dated to the very end of the A thick horizontal line decorated with w vertical elliptical pellets. Unclear Arabic legend (upside down own). egend. Rev.: Unclear marginal Arabic leg Within plain circle in centre: 21 Turkia-Paghava, 2009. For a general review of the life andd ppersonality of this Georgian monarch cf. Stepnadze 1990. 23 Turkia-Paghava, 2009. 24 Ibid. 22 13 appear to have remained the sam ame so that the coin type may be reconstructed as follows: 25 Strip of geometrical ornament . lan or effaced on all available Obv.: Marginal legend (off-flan specimens)? Within plain circle in centre: (upside dow own). The legible fragments of the legends on the 3 new n coins (figs. 2-4) do not differ from the above coin type26. Thick horizontal line embroidere red with vertical elliptical pellets OR diamonds with dots between tw two parallel lines. (upside down). Rev.: Unclear marginal Arabic leg egend. Within plain circle in centre: Fig. 2 Fig. 3 Strip of a geometrical (parquet-lik like) ornament. (upside down). Hopefully, more and broader specimens of this type (of both subtypes) will show up, providing ng the opportunity to ascertain the missing marginal legends as well. ll. References: Fig. 4 1. These new specimens, however, are quite rem markable in terms of the divider design element on the obverse; it ddoes not constitute a thick horizontal line embroidered with vertical al elliptical pellets, as on the earlier specimens (cf. fig. 1)27, but a strip s of geometrical ornaments, which differs in terms of tracery fr from the geometrical ornament on the reverse of the earlier spec ecimens. It may be described as a succession of diamonds with th dots between two parallel lines. As to the reverse divider element nt, it is visible on just 2 of the new specimens (figs. 3-4), and is like li the one on the earlier specimens (cf. fig. 1)28. One of the new specimens (fig. 4) also ena nables us to read the bottom part of the central obverse legend. In th the original work we paid particular attention to the absence of th the standard Arabic epithets eulogizing the Georgian monarch,, such as “King of Kings” or “Sword of the Messiah” or 2. Stepnadze 1990 – [Stepnadze ze J. Demetre the First. Tbilisi: Metsniereba. 1990]. (Original text tex in Georgian: stefnaZe j. demetre pirveli. Tbilisi: mecniereba. 1990. 0.) Turkia-Paghava, 2009 – Turkia S., S Paghava I. “A New Coin Type of Dimitri I, King of Georgia”. Journal Jo of the Oriental Numismatic Society, 200, Summer 2009. P. 9-112. A UNIQUE HALF DIRHAM DI FROM THE MINT OF NAKHJA JAWAN WITH THE ULU MANGYL ULUS UL BEK LEGEND By Irakli Paghava and an Giorgi Janjgava A comprehensive review of the silver coins with the legend “Ulugh Mangyl Ulus Bek” and the effigy of a mounted archer was published in this journal in 200732. The paper covered the dirhams and half-dirhams from some 166 different mints in the southern 3 Caucasus and the adjacent region33 (Table 1). A recent discovery provides us u with the opportunity to extend our familiarity with the this Mong ngol coin series. By means of this short paper we should like to publ blish a previously unknown and so far seemingly unique half dir irham coin from the mint of Nakhjawan34. . The new specimen makes it clear that we weree wrong, w as is legible in the bottom central area of this spec ecimen; cf. fig. 5 for the graphic reconstruction of the obverse (rot rotated 1800) bearing this title. Fig. 5 The metrological data for the coin presented inn fig. 229 is: weight 1.29 g, dimensions 10-12 mm, die axis 12 o’cl clock. Unfortunately, we have no such information for the coins prese esented in fig. 330 and fig. 431. The new specimens show that the design of this new coin type of Dimitri I could vary, providing the basis for fo distinguishing at least two different subtypes according to the design de of the obverse divider element. However, the legends (at leas east the central ones) Fig. ig. 1 AR, weight 1.39 g (a fragment is chipped off); dimensions 14.615.3 mm; die axis 7 o’clock, fig.. 11. Obv.: A horse galloping to the left, lef a horseman shooting an arrow backwards, a hare beneath the horse running to the right. Surrounded by a circle of dots (visible (v at 5 o’clock), traces of a legend at 2 o’clock. 25 It may be described as parquet-like. Ibid. 27 Ibid. 28 Ibid. 29 Currently in a private collection in Georgia. 30 Currently in another private collection in Georgia. 31 Auctioned on eBay, unsold; current location unkno nown. 26 32 Vardanyan A. “Some additions to the th coins with the inscription “Ulugh Mangyl Ulus Bek”. Journal of the Orie riental Numismatic Society, 190, 2007. P. 7-20. 33 Notwithstanding many extant coinss with illegible/missing mint name [Ibid.:15-18]. 34 Currently the coin is in a private coll ollection in Iran. 14