Die Münzstätte Hamah

Hamah was the most important city between Damascus and Aleppo during the high and late Middle Ages, seat of a separate principality of the Ayyubids, the family of Saladin. The continuous coinage, partly in the name of the local princes, partly in the name of the sultans of Damascus and Cairo, from about 1178 to 1430 is almost completely documented in the Tübingen collection. It supplements the previously known stock of coinage data as considerably as corrections of earlier readings became necessary. In the introduction Lorenz Korn gives an overview of the history of the city and its coinage. Each coin is described in detail and illustrated on a plate opposite the descriptions. The editor has systematically included references to the few types of Hamah coins not available in Tübingen, giving this collection catalog the character of a mint monograph.