Aleksandr Naymark asked me to pass on the following
announcement.

Michael Bates
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Seminar "Early Iranian and Central Asian Numismatics"
In Memoriam Boris Kochnev (1940-2002) Hofstra
University, March 24, 2008

The meeting will take place in room 206, Davison Hall
For the directions to Hofstra University please look
at:

http://www.hofstra.edu/About/InfoCenter/info_hofdirect.html

13:00
Aleksandr Naymark
"Sasanians, Bukhara and Chach in the first half of the
5th century."

13:45
Dmitrii Markov and Aleksandr Naymark
"Chronology of Early Mediaeval Chach Coinage."

14:30
Luke Treadwell
"Arab-Sasanian Copper of the Umayyad Period and the
Earliest Municipal Coinage of Islamic Iran."

15:15
Discussion

15:45
Coffee break

16:00
Luke Treadwell and Aleksandr Naymark
"Dividing Dirhams into Coppers: the 'Denominational
Fulus' of Early Islamic Eastern Iran and Transoxania."

16:45
Michael Bates
"The Mints of Early Islamic al-Shash"

17:30
Discussion

19:00
Dinner at Kashkar Restaurant
1141 Brighton Beach Ave (between brighton 14th and
15th Streets)
Brooklyn, NY 11235
(718) 743-3832

The event is sponsored by the Middle Eastern and
Central Asian Program

Questions to: Aleksandr.Naymark@...



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