Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to be able to invite you to a lecture that I will give at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on October 31.

The title is "Mining and Minting in the Islamic World and Elsewhere." This is
the same as the plenary lecture I gave at the International Numismatic Congress
in Madrid last month, but better, after its "out of town" tryout. The lecture
argues that mining of precious metals is not just the necessary precursor, but
often the immediate reason, for minting, with examples from California, ancient
Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, and the Islamic world.

The lecture, which is the first in a monthly series sponsored by the Department
of Islamic Art, will be in the Uris Lecture Hall of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art at 2:00 PM on Friday, October 31. The Hall is on the ground floor of the
museum at the south end, closest to the 82nd Street entrance or the garage. It
is open to the public.

I hope to see you there.

Michael L. Bates
Curator of Islamic Coins
The American Numismatic Society
bates@...


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