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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
Few men have done more for the science of Oriental Numismatics than Frederic Soret. And yet among his writings we may search in vain for any work of great extent. The largest he ever published is his handbook, Éléments de la Numismatique Musulmane, and even this appeared in parts in the Belgian Revue, and was reprinted as a separate work after his death. Frederic Soret's work was done by small pieces, which, when put together, form a very considerable whole. The line he took was chiefly that of publishing such coins as he found in his own or other collections, and which were as yet unknown to the numismatic world,—if I may apply so large a term to so small a thing. And those short monographs of his are among the most precious additions to the knowledge of Oriental coins which the century has seen. Nor does Soret stand alone in this system of publishing inedited coins. He has been vigorously followed by a very able and sufficiently numerous body of German and other scholars, who have made known all the noteworthy coins which have come across their path.
page 244 note 1 An asterisk (*) after the number of the coin indicates that it is photographed in the accompanying Plate.
page 244 note 2 Some readers may not remember that 
is an abbreviation for 
to the end of it, equivalent to etc.
page 245 note 1 We are left in painful uncertainty whether it was the Sulṭán or the King of Karmán who wept.
page 248 note 1 Or 
according to Ibn-al-Athír, from whose Kámil this account of Shams-ad-dawlah is drawn.
page 249 note 2 The mountain-district in which is situated Hamadhán; the district is also called Al-Jabál (
Yáḳút, , Geogr. Wörterb., in v., ii.Google Scholar ٢ ٢). There is also a place called Al-Jabal, three days' journey from Jazírat-ibn-'Omar (Al-Idrísí, , ii. 172).Google Scholar But the district is here meant.
page 251 note 1 Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft, x. xi.Google Scholar
page 253 note 1 (٢9٣ii)
page 254 note 1 Sic.
page 254 note 2 Two coins, published by Dr. Dorn and Dr. Mordtmann respectively, have the Pahlawí word 
marwan (for so it may surely be read in preference to merún)b eneath the Obv. Area. They also both bear the mint-name 
in the usual Arabic marginal inscription. The dates of these two coins are 81 and 101. (See Tiesen-hausen, , 294 and 494.)Google Scholar
page 255 note 1 This (or Irmíniyah) not Armíníyah (with the yé mushaddad) is the correct spelling.
(Yáḳút i. ٢19)
page 256 note 1 See my Catalogue of the Collection of Oriental Coins belonging to Colonel C. Seton Guthrie, Fasc. I. Coins of the Amawí Khalífehs (Stephen Austin & Sons, Hertford, 1874), p. 7Google Scholar, and pl. i. fig. 38.
page 256 note 2 I am indebted for this explanation to my uncle, Mr. Reginald Stuart Poole, who has investigated the question of Byzantine and Alexandrian value-indexes in a paper in the Numismatic Chronicle, 1853.Google Scholar
page 257 note 1 The 
of 
is omitted; so too the 
which should support the 
of 
the latter probably for want of space.