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Papers by Luc Vervloet

Revue belge de numismatique et de sigillographie, 2019

In this contribution a few remarkable Arab-Byzantine coins are discussed. They were struck in lat... more In this contribution a few remarkable Arab-Byzantine coins are discussed. They were struck in late 7th-century Bilād aš-Šām. This core province of the Umayyad Caliphate, adjacent to the Byzantine Empire, is also known as historical (Greater) Syria or the Levant. The aim of this paper is twofold: on the one hand, strengthening certain findings or assumptions of earlier research; on the other, reconsidering a somewhat overlooked hypothesis. In the first category nearly all considered issues can ultimately be traced back to questions of die cutting and die linking. As for the revisited hypothesis, it fits in the broader context of the propaganda war conducted between two rival empires at the end of the 7th century, the Umayyad Caliphate and Byzantium. This paper reflects the modest hope of a non-professional numismatist to offer the specialists some material they can build on, and to broaden, to a limited extent, the debate about early Umayyad coinage and Arab-Byzantine relations.

Revue Belge de Numismatique, 2019

In this contribution a few remarkable Arab-Byzantine coins are discussed. They were struck in lat... more In this contribution a few remarkable Arab-Byzantine coins are discussed. They were struck in late 7th-century Bilād aš-Šām. This core province of the Umayyad Caliphate, adjacent to the Byzantine Empire, is also known as historical (Greater) Syria or the Levant. The aim of this paper is twofold: on the one hand, strengthening certain findings or assumptions of earlier research; on the other, reconsidering a somewhat overlooked hypothesis. In the first category nearly all considered issues can ultimately be traced back to questions of die cutting and die linking. As for the revisited hypothesis, it fits in the broader context of the propaganda war conducted between two rival empires at the end of the 7th century, the Umayyad Caliphate and Byzantium. This paper reflects the modest hope of a non-professional numismatist to offer the specialists some material they can build on, and to broaden, to a limited extent, the debate about early Umayyad coinage and Arab-Byzantine relations.

Have we to link this epigraphical particularity with what Bates (1989, The Coinage of Syria under... more Have we to link this epigraphical particularity with what Bates (1989, The Coinage of Syria under the Umayyads, pp. 200-203) calls 'the Pahlavesque script', found on 'Abd al-Malik's transitional coinage and "engraved by die cutters who were more used to writing Pahlavi than Arabic"? In this script, characteristic of the Arab-Sasanian coinage of the East, "the letters are Arabic, but the individual strokes that form them are similar to the strokes that form the Pahlavi inscriptions". After 'Abd al-Malik's victory over Ibn az-Zubayr's governor in Iraq (Oct. 691)-this battle "effectively unified the central lands of the Islamic world", rather than the dead of Ibn az-Zubayr far away in the Hijaz (Oct. 692)-important mints (Basra, Kufa, e.g.) fell into 'Abd al-Malik's hands, "making available experienced mint personnel who could organize a new mint in Damascus and engrave the dies with the inscriptions […] described as Pahlavesque". This is nothing more than a question, not even a hypothesis: a line of enquiry, to be explored by people possessing more specialized skills than the present author. If, in the future, causality could be proven, we would then have a terminus a quo at our disposal.

RBN 165, 2019

In this contribution a few remarkable Arab-Byzantine coins are discussed. They were struck in lat... more In this contribution a few remarkable Arab-Byzantine coins are discussed. They were struck in late 7th-century Bilād aš-Šām. This core province of the Umayyad Caliphate, adjacent to the Byzantine Empire, is also known as historical (Greater) Syria or the Levant.
The aim of this paper is twofold: on the one hand, strengthening certain findings or assumptions of earlier research; on the other, reconsidering a somewhat overlooked hypothesis. In the first category nearly all considered issues can ultimately be traced back to questions of die cutting and die linking. As for the revisited hypothesis, it fits in the broader context of the propaganda war conducted between two rival empires at the end of the 7th century, the Umayyad Caliphate and Byzantium.
This paper reflects the modest hope of a non-professional numismatist to offer the specialists some material they can build on, and to broaden, to a limited extent, the debate about early Umayyad coinage and Arab-Byzantine relations.

Drafts by Luc Vervloet

Rare Arab-Islamic coins, 2nd rev. ed., 2021

Very rare Arab-Islamic coins, from Arab-Byzantine to Ottoman. With evaluations ('starting prices')

The GandavAr Collection, 2021

Rare Arab-Islamic coins from the GandavAr Collection, Ghent (Belgium) Part 1 An online working pa... more Rare Arab-Islamic coins from the GandavAr Collection, Ghent (Belgium) Part 1
An online working paper, hosted by Academia.edu, July 2021
Luc Vervloet

Revue belge de numismatique et de sigillographie, 2019

In this contribution a few remarkable Arab-Byzantine coins are discussed. They were struck in lat... more In this contribution a few remarkable Arab-Byzantine coins are discussed. They were struck in late 7th-century Bilād aš-Šām. This core province of the Umayyad Caliphate, adjacent to the Byzantine Empire, is also known as historical (Greater) Syria or the Levant. The aim of this paper is twofold: on the one hand, strengthening certain findings or assumptions of earlier research; on the other, reconsidering a somewhat overlooked hypothesis. In the first category nearly all considered issues can ultimately be traced back to questions of die cutting and die linking. As for the revisited hypothesis, it fits in the broader context of the propaganda war conducted between two rival empires at the end of the 7th century, the Umayyad Caliphate and Byzantium. This paper reflects the modest hope of a non-professional numismatist to offer the specialists some material they can build on, and to broaden, to a limited extent, the debate about early Umayyad coinage and Arab-Byzantine relations.

Revue Belge de Numismatique, 2019

In this contribution a few remarkable Arab-Byzantine coins are discussed. They were struck in lat... more In this contribution a few remarkable Arab-Byzantine coins are discussed. They were struck in late 7th-century Bilād aš-Šām. This core province of the Umayyad Caliphate, adjacent to the Byzantine Empire, is also known as historical (Greater) Syria or the Levant. The aim of this paper is twofold: on the one hand, strengthening certain findings or assumptions of earlier research; on the other, reconsidering a somewhat overlooked hypothesis. In the first category nearly all considered issues can ultimately be traced back to questions of die cutting and die linking. As for the revisited hypothesis, it fits in the broader context of the propaganda war conducted between two rival empires at the end of the 7th century, the Umayyad Caliphate and Byzantium. This paper reflects the modest hope of a non-professional numismatist to offer the specialists some material they can build on, and to broaden, to a limited extent, the debate about early Umayyad coinage and Arab-Byzantine relations.

Have we to link this epigraphical particularity with what Bates (1989, The Coinage of Syria under... more Have we to link this epigraphical particularity with what Bates (1989, The Coinage of Syria under the Umayyads, pp. 200-203) calls 'the Pahlavesque script', found on 'Abd al-Malik's transitional coinage and "engraved by die cutters who were more used to writing Pahlavi than Arabic"? In this script, characteristic of the Arab-Sasanian coinage of the East, "the letters are Arabic, but the individual strokes that form them are similar to the strokes that form the Pahlavi inscriptions". After 'Abd al-Malik's victory over Ibn az-Zubayr's governor in Iraq (Oct. 691)-this battle "effectively unified the central lands of the Islamic world", rather than the dead of Ibn az-Zubayr far away in the Hijaz (Oct. 692)-important mints (Basra, Kufa, e.g.) fell into 'Abd al-Malik's hands, "making available experienced mint personnel who could organize a new mint in Damascus and engrave the dies with the inscriptions […] described as Pahlavesque". This is nothing more than a question, not even a hypothesis: a line of enquiry, to be explored by people possessing more specialized skills than the present author. If, in the future, causality could be proven, we would then have a terminus a quo at our disposal.

RBN 165, 2019

In this contribution a few remarkable Arab-Byzantine coins are discussed. They were struck in lat... more In this contribution a few remarkable Arab-Byzantine coins are discussed. They were struck in late 7th-century Bilād aš-Šām. This core province of the Umayyad Caliphate, adjacent to the Byzantine Empire, is also known as historical (Greater) Syria or the Levant.
The aim of this paper is twofold: on the one hand, strengthening certain findings or assumptions of earlier research; on the other, reconsidering a somewhat overlooked hypothesis. In the first category nearly all considered issues can ultimately be traced back to questions of die cutting and die linking. As for the revisited hypothesis, it fits in the broader context of the propaganda war conducted between two rival empires at the end of the 7th century, the Umayyad Caliphate and Byzantium.
This paper reflects the modest hope of a non-professional numismatist to offer the specialists some material they can build on, and to broaden, to a limited extent, the debate about early Umayyad coinage and Arab-Byzantine relations.

Rare Arab-Islamic coins, 2nd rev. ed., 2021

Very rare Arab-Islamic coins, from Arab-Byzantine to Ottoman. With evaluations ('starting prices')

The GandavAr Collection, 2021

Rare Arab-Islamic coins from the GandavAr Collection, Ghent (Belgium) Part 1 An online working pa... more Rare Arab-Islamic coins from the GandavAr Collection, Ghent (Belgium) Part 1
An online working paper, hosted by Academia.edu, July 2021
Luc Vervloet