ONS News including UK, Blaubeuren, New York meetings, 2010

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New members and revised addresses

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New and recent publications

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Book review: Silver Coinage of the Caliphs by A. Shams Eshragh, reviewed by S. Lloyd

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Financial and monetary crisis during the reign of the Ottoman sultan, Mahmūd II by Drs K. Boele & H. Woudsma

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Umayyad copper coinage in the name of Marwan II b. Muḥammad from the Caucasus – additional comments by N. Schindel

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A dirham of the ruler of Darband, Maymūn bin Ahmad (bin ‘Abd al-Malik bin Hāshim) by V. Lebedev

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Some new denomination coins of Nādir Shāh minted in Georgia by I. Paghava, S. Turkia & G. Janjgava

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Safavid coinage of Aresh by A. Akopyan & F. Mosanef

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The cross-in-circle mark on the silver coins of the Safavid ruler, Sultān Husayn, from the Iravān mint by I. Paghava, S. Turkia & A. Akopyan

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A dinar of Hisām al-Dīn Aydoghdī, Atabek of Khuzestan by A. Akopyan & F. Mosanef

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Theophilos Autrkrator, a last Bactrian king? By J. Jakobsson

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The Fatimids and their coins of Multan by M.M. Akbar & B.A. Baig

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Previously unknown Gandharan punchmarks from a recent hoard by Dr A. Fishman

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Coin of an unknown son of Vijayasena, ruler of the Western Ksatrapas in Gujarat by Dr A. Fishman

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A new coin type of the Kadambas of Banavasi by K. Ganesh

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Mint-mark noted on a copper falus coin of the Delhi sultan, Fīrūz III by G. Cawser

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Srīhat (modern Sylhet) – a newly identified mint town of the Sultans of Bengal by R. Haque

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A quarter tanka of Shams al-Dīn Muzaffar of Bengal by N. Rhodes

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Coins of Sikandar Shāh, the successor of Ahsan Shāh by K. Ganesh

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The rupees of Banda Bahadur – a comedy of errors by H. Herrli

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A nazarana mohur of Karauli by J. Lingen

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More Sindhia copper cons of Bhilsa mint by B. Tabor

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Two more uniface copper coins of Bhopal by B. Tabor

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Sichuan rupees with emperor’s portrait facing right by W. Bertsch

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An interesting copper coin of Akbar of Srinagar mint by N. Rhodes

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An Arab-Byzantine standing imperial figure coin from Jund al-Urdun inscribed with the word ‘fils’ by T. Ramadan

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An unusual gold coin of Jalāl al-Dīn Muhammad of Bengal by N. Rhodes & U.S. Shaw

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