Ed Hohertz writes:

This writing was born as a personal work. My own interest prompted a guide to help me identify Abbasidcoins. I soon understood that I needed help bring it to completion, this help was selflessly given to mefrom Federico. And that's how little by little it has grown to become the work you have in your hands.

A publication like this one involves many risks due to various factors.

On the one hand, we have that the Abbasid Caliphate lasted for 524 years, going through various historicalperiods, which means that we can see different styles of coinage, calligraphy and even the distribution oflegends. We can add to this that there was a huge extension, since many of its territories acted almostautonomously and therefore issued differente currency than the official one.

The number of mints that issued coins at some point in the history of this Caliphate is enormous, here we haveregistered around two hundred, but surely some have been overlooked. Despite this we believe that thecompilation is quite complete and that it will help those who use it.

It has been completed with some sections that allow deciphering the value and dates of the coins. It is achapter in which all the caliphs are related to the years in which they ruled with an example of a coin fromtheir reign so that the stylistic evolution of each period can be observed.

Finally, many of the names that appear on the coins are added: viziers, governors, rebels, etc.

So, it is a simple work, without great pretensions, a simple, very concise guide to a very broad historical period.For this reason, I apologize for the errors that I have made in its writing, but it is exposed to the public hopingit may be useful to the reader.

Juan Fernando Martínez Atienza

To read of download the book, see:
http://www.amuletosdealandalus.com/Manquso.com/