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History of Currency in the Sultanate of Oman

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History of Currency in the Sultanate of Oman
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Darley-Doran, Robert E., History of Currency in the Sultanate of Oman, The Central Bank of Oman, Muscat, 1990/1411, 141 pages with full color high quality images throughout, hardcove with dust jacket. A beautifully laid-out history of Islamic coinage in this part of the Arabian Peninsula. Not a catalogue, but richly illustrated with enlarged photographs. Each chapter is a different century of coinage from the earliest Umayyads to the present. Includes Abbasid, Saffarid, Wajihid, Buwayhid, Qarmatid, Mukramid, Qalhatid, Rasulid. The legends of most coins are written out in the Arabic text, with transliterations and translations in the English text.