STEPHEN ALBUM RARE COINS ♦ SPECIALISTS IN ISLAMIC, INDIAN, & ORIENTAL CoINS ♦ Online Catalog: www.stevealbum.com auction staff Stephen Album ............................... Numismatist ....................................................steve@stevealbum.com Joseph Lang ..................................... Numismatist .................................................... [email protected] Paul Montz ........................................ Numismatist ....................................................paul@stevealbum.com Dr. Norman D. Nicol ....................... Numismatist ....................................................ndnicol@epix.net Michael Barry ................................... Numismatist/Photography [email protected] Brian Henderson ............................. Photography ...................................................brian@stevealbum.com Jocelyn McCord ............................... Accounting ......................................................jocelyn@stevealbum.com Kate Polacci ...................................... Shipping/Receiving [email protected] Danica Rodarmel ............................ Numismatic Conservation Natalie Fry ......................................... Graphic Design auction presented by Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc. PO Box 7386 Santa Rosa, CA 95407 USA Telephone 707-539-2120 www.stevealbum.com Member: IAPN, ANA, ANS, ONS, RNS, CSNA, AVA, MCS Bonded California Auctioneers bidding methods Email your bids to [email protected] Bid On Our Website by logging in with your customer number. Contact us if you do not have a customer number. Mail your bids to Stephen Album Rare Coins, PO Box 7386, Santa Rosa, CA 95407 Bid Live on the days of the auction. See Live Internet Bidding section below. Fax your bids to 1-707-539-3348 Telephone Bids by prior arrangement only. 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AUCTION 16 MAY 17-18, 2013 Ancient Coins | 1-62 auction number 16 Parthian..................................................17-25 Friday, May 17, 2013 Sasanian.................................................26-40 Session A Islamic Dynasties | 63-303, 382-801 09:00 PDT Lots 1 – 440 Arab-Sasanian........................................63-84 Umayyad & Abbasid...........................94-186 [Break 13:00-14:00 PDT] Spain & North Africa...........................187-204 Session B Egypt & Syria......................................... 205-262 14:00 PDT Lots 441– 861 Arabian Peninsula............................... 263-285 Anatolian Peninsula........................... 286-303 Saturday, May 18, 2013 Mongol Dynasties............................... 485-616 Session C Timurid & Later..................................... 648-685 09:00 PDT Lots 862 – 1323 Shahs of Iran......................................... 686-739 Afghan Dynasties.................................751-789 [Break 14:00-15:00 PDT] Civic Coppers........................................ 790-801 Session D Ottoman Empire | 304-381 15:00 PDT Lots 1324 – 1903 Early Ottoman...................................... 304-316 *All session and break times are estimated and are Later Ottoman...................................... 317-381 subject to fluctuation. Please plan accordingly. China | 802-861 Bidding can be followed live on iCollector.com Chinese Dynasties............................... 802-822 Modern China....................................... 823-831 Chinese Provincial............................... 832-861 India | 862-1323 Ancient India......................................... 862-908 Medieval India...................................... 909-916 online pre-bidding Sultanates.............................................. 917-969 You can bid online on our website by logging in with Mughal Empire.....................................970-1092 Princely States...................................... 1096-1216 your customer number. Please contact us if you do Colonial India........................................ 1217-1316 not have a customer number. Modern India........................................ 1317-1323 www.stevealbum.com Asia & Middle East | 1324-1671 Korea........................................................ 1419-1504 Sarawak................................................... 1552-1580 last minute bids Straits Settlements.............................. 1582-1641 On the days of auction, May 17-18, 2013, Africa | 1672-1705 please fax your bids to 707-539-3348 or email Egypt....................................................... 1679-1683 your bids to: [email protected] Morocco..................................................1691-1695 *NOTE: Bids sent after the auction has started Europe | 1706-1816 are not guaranteed to be accepted. England.................................................. 1714-1722 High resolution images of most lots are Italian States......................................... 1760-1776 ♦ available on our website at: Americas | 1817-1880 Central American Republic............. 1830-1845 www.stevealbum.com Australia & Pacific | 1881-1902 Additional information on some lots can Australia................................................. 1881-1899 also be found at our website above. Worldwide Group Lot | 1903 OUR STAFF Stephen Album - Director of Islamic & Early Indian Numismatics Steve has been serving the numismatic community since 1960. In 1976 he began dealing nearly exclusively in Islamic and Indian coins. He has authored several books including a complete rewrite of Marsden's Numismata Orientalia Illustrata, a guide to Islamic and Oriental coins with values. In 1993 he published A Checklist of Islamic Coins, which now in its third edition is the standard for collectors of Islamic coins. Mr. Album is currently a senior fellow at the Worcester College, Oxford, England, and in this position has authored three of the ten volumes of the Sylloge of Islamic Coins in the Ashmolean (Museum) beginning in 1999. In May of 2004 the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen in Germany honored Mr. Album with a philosophiae doctoris honoris causae, an honorary doctoral degree in philosophy. Steve is among the world's leading experts in Islamic and Indian coins. Joseph Lang - Director of East Asian & Later Indian Numismatics Joe is a member of the American Numismatic Association (ANA), as well as many other numismatic associations. He has been a full-time coin dealer in California since 1987 and was first based in San Diego. Mr. Lang has been a contributing editor to various editions of Krause publication's Standard Catalog of World Coins, German Coins, and World Paper Money for over a decade. He has also contributed to past editions of the Monetary Research Institute's Banker's Guide to Foreign Currency. Mr. Lang has specialized in world coins since 1989 with expertise in Chinese and other Asian cast coins and later machine struck Chinese coins. He is also one of the main catalogers on Imperial Mughal, Indian Princely States and Colonial Indian coinages. Paul Montz - Director of World Coins Paul joined the staff in January 2011. He attended UC Davis from 1975-80, earning bachelor's and master's degrees in Agricultural Science & Management and Agronomy, respectively. He began working in the numismatic field in the 1970's. In 1981, he founded Olde World Numismatics in Chico, CA, a business he ran for 30 years, focusing on A-Z world coins, before merging with Stephen Album Rare Coins. He has published price lists for many years and has been a fixture at major coin shows since the 1980's. Paul is a life member of the American Numismatic Association and is a member of other organizations. He has been a contributing editor for the Standard Catalog of World Coins since 1998. Dr. Norman Douglas Nicol - Numismatist / Cataloger Doug worked as Steve's assistant full-time from 1981 until 1999, after which he moved back to his home area of northeastern Pennsylvania. Doug began cataloging again for Stephen Album Rare Coins in 2006. Doug received a doctorate in Medieval Islamic History from the University of Washington (Seattle) in 1979 and during a subsequent post-doctoral stay in Egypt, co- authored a catalog of the coins and related items in the Egyptian National Library, Cairo (1982). During the years Doug worked for Steve in California, he researched and compiled his Corpus of Fatimid Coins, which was published in 2006. He has been a senior research fellow at Oxford University since 2001, having agreed to write five of the proposed ten volumes