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Treadwell, Luke. Craftsmen and coins: signed dies in the Iranian world (third to the fifth centuries

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Treadwell, Luke. Craftsmen and coins: signed dies in the Iranian world (third to the fifth centuries
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Treadwell, Luke, Craftsmen and coins: signed dies in the Iranian world (third to the fifth centuries AH), Vienna, 2011, 120 pages, 3 plates, softcover. The engravers' signatures discussed in this book were inscribed over a thousand years ago on the metal surfaces of coin die. Although not a single signed die has survived to the present day, a small number of the many thousands of coins made from them remain in coin collections all over the world. The signatures allow researchers to identify a number of dirham dies that can be attributed to each engraver. By comparing the style of these signed dies with unsigned dies of the same period the author built up a corpus of objects that can be attributed to each craftsman. The die corpus provides a pool of evidence upon which to base a detailed study of the engraver's working practices, signed by the author, ex Libris Norman D. Nicol.