Numismatic Literature，Valentine, W. H., Modern Copper Coins of the Muhammadan States, London, 1911, Spink & Son, original printing, 202 pages, hardcover, an excellent overview of copper coinage of Islamic world, medieval to modern. Includes Ottoman Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Tripoli (Libya), Morocco, East Africa, Arabia, Crimea coppers of the Giray Khans, Caucasia mints of Panahabad and Shusha, Georgia, Persia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Chinese Turkestan. Historical overview, maps. Full legends written out, transliterated and translated. Includes lists of rulers, Georgian numerals and alphabet, ex. H. F. Bowker Numismatic Library. Howard Franklin Bowker (1889-1970) was a numismatist and philatelist, collecting and specializing in Chinese coins, stamps and banknotes. He created the first bibliography of Western language publications on East Asian numismatics.
