Some Coins from Sinjār

Abstract

Dr. Henry Field has been kind enough to intrust to me the identification of seventy-three coins collected by him by purchase in Beled Sinjdr in June, 1934, and presented by him to the Museum of the American Numismatic Society in New York. Four of the coins are silver, the rest copper and bronze, generally in a rather poor state of preservation. With the exception of two or three of the Ilkhdnid coins, the collection contains nothing very uncommon. The mint Birimmah (No. 43) is the most interesting discovery. The time range of the collection is extended (from Trajan to the Ottoman cAbd iil-cAziz), but geographically the lot is homogeneous, the mints all being in the Sinjar (northern Jezirah) region, with the exception of Antioch (Roman) and Constantinople (Byzantine and Ottoman). In the following summary list I have limited myself to brief descriptions and catalogue references except where the coin seems to be inedited. The weights are of no importance. Diameters are given in millimeters.