Buyid coins: No comprehensive treatment of the complex Buyid coinage exists.
Lindberg's, J.-C.
“
Essai sur les monnaies coufiques frappées par les Emirs de la famille des Bouides” in
Mémoires de la Société Roy ale des Antiquaires du Nord (
Copenhagen,
1840–4), pp. 193–271, was an admirable pioneer work, but an immense amount of material since that date has become available in scattered publications and in unpublished collections. Roy P. Mottahedeh is now engaged in compiling a major corpus and monograph on the subject. Some important data on the coinage drawn from literary sources have been assembled by
Claude, Cahen
in “
Quelques Problèmes économiques et fiscaux de l'Irâq Buyide d'après un traité de mathématiques”,
AIEO, vol.
X (
1952), pp. 338–41. On Būid “ceremonial” gold pieces see Sir
Arnold, Thomas W.
in
Painting in Islam (
Oxford,
1928;
New York,
1965), pl. LIX. Cf.
Walker, J.
in
ANS Centennial Publication (
New York,
1958), p. 694, fig. 2.
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