Item 1967/1 - Determining the silver content of coins non-destructively using neutron activation analysis, by Adon A. Gordus and Jere L. Bacharach

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JCPP/Stewartby/5/2/GORDUS/1967/1

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Determining the silver content of coins non-destructively using neutron activation analysis, by Adon A. Gordus and Jere L. Bacharach

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  • 1967 (Creation)

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Gordus, A. A.

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"Determining the silver content of coins non-destructively using neutron activation analysis", by Adon A. Gordus and Jere L. Bacharach, typescript (photocopy), eight pages on four folios (recto & verso), dated September 1967, with two tables, and black & white illustrations. The studies described in the paper were undertaken as part of Jere Bacharach's research towards the PhD. The coins that provided the basis for the research were all Muslim issues from the collection of the Francis W. Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan. There were three distinct groups of coins: (1) silver dirhams from the mint al-Wāsiṭ in the names of Umayyad al-Walīd I (AH 86-96 / 705-715 AD) and Hishām (AH 105-125 / 724-742 AD); (2) silver dirhams of Cairo in the names of earliest Baḥrī sultans of Egypt: Aybak (AH 648-655 / 1250-1257 AD), Alī (AH 655-657 / 1257-1259 AD), Quṭuz (AH 657-658 / 1259-1260) and Baybars I (AH 658-676 / 1260-1277); and (3) silver dirhams of Damascus in the name of the Circassian ruler Barsbāy (AH 825-841 / 1422-1437).

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