Aksumite Numismatic Bibliography J to M
For a bibliography up to 1995 see Munro-Hay S.C. and Juel-Jensen B., Aksumite Coinage, Spink, 1995.
The addendum below consists of items which are later, or were there described as "forthcoming" (here marked '+'),
or were omitted or are corrections. Those already published in the Errata in Spink Numismatic Circular,
March 1996, Vol. CIV/2, p.43 are asterisked.
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Juel-Jensen, B.E., 1984. Review (of Munro-Hay 1984),
Spink Numismatic Circular, July 1984, Vol. XCII/6, pp.183-4.
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+Juel-Jensen, B.E., 1995ii. A Gold Coin - WARQ - of the Aksumite King Aphilas Struck from Hitherto Unpublished Dies,
Spink Numismatic Circular, December 1995, Vol. CIII/10, p.375.
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Juel-Jensen, B.E., 1997. A New Warq of King Ousanas of Aksum,
Spink Numismatic Circular, September 1997, Vol. CV/7, pp.236-7.
A new variety with the new Aksumite Coinage type number 20i.
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Juel-Jensen, B.E., 1998. Two Unpublished Forgeries of Aksumite Coins,
Spink Numismatic Circular, March 1998, Vol. CVI/2, p.54.
A copper of Aphilas and an imaginary coin.
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Juel-Jensen, B.E., 1998ii. The First Christian Gold Coin of King Ezanas of Aksum,
Spink Numismatic Circular, June 1998, Vol. CVI/5, pp.206-8.
A new variety with the new Aksumite Coinage type number 46ix.
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Juel-Jensen, B.E., 1999. Chapelet Casting in Aksum,
Spink Numismatic Circular, February 1999, Vol. CVII/1, p. 8.
Evidence of multiple flan casting on an anonymous copper coin.
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Juel-Jensen, B.E., 1999ii. Two Gold Coins of King Eon of Aksum Struck from Unpublished Dies,
Spink Numismatic Circular, March 1999, Vol. CVII/2, pp.44-5.
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Juel-Jensen, B.E., 1999iii. More Gold Coins out of India of King Ousanas of Aksum,
Spink Numismatic Circular, July 1999, Vol. CVII/6, p.176.
Two new varieties with the new Aksumite Coinage type numbers 20ii and 24i.
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Juel-Jensen, B.E., 1999iv. Review (of Munro-Hay 1999), Spink Numismatic Circular, July 1999, Vol. CVII/6, p.182.
For other reviews see Hahn 2000vii, Ricci 1999 and West 1999ii.
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Juel-Jensen, B.E., 2000. Aksumite "Coins" for Tourists and a Forged Gold Coin from India,
Spink Numismatic Circular, February 2000, Vol. CVIII/1, p.8.
Some modern fabrications and an ancient contemporary forgery of an Ousanas gold.
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Juel-Jensen, B.E., 2001. A Gold Coin of King Kaleb of Aksum with a Reverse from an Unpublished Die,
Spink Numismatic Circular, February 2001, Vol. CIX/1, p.6.
A new variety with the new Aksumite Coinage type number 101ii.
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Juel-Jensen, B.E., 2004. An Unusual Triangle on an Ebana Coin,
Spink Numismatic Circular, October 2004, Vol. CXII/5, p.294.
A variety of Aksumite Coinage type 71 with a triangle in front of the bust on the reverse.
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Juel-Jensen, B.E., 2005. A New Aksumite Coin,
Spink Numismatic Circular, June 2005, Vol. CXIII/3, pp.177-8.
A variety of the silver of Mhdys with the new Aksumite Coinage type number 68ix.
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Juel-Jensen, B.E., 2006. Two New Kaleb Coins and a Variant of Kaleb (105),
Spink Numismatic Circular, February 2006, Vol. CXIV/1, pp.5-6.
Publishes eight gold coins including three of Kaleb, two of Ezana, two of Nezana and a contemporary forgery.
There are a number of slips especially in the transcriptions of the legends.
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Juel-Jensen, B.E., 2006ii. A New Coin of Ousanas King of Aksum,
Spink Numismatic Circular, April 2006, Vol. CXIV/2, p.81.
A new obverse and reverse die for the gold of Ousanas I.
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[Juel-Jensen, B.E.], 2007. Obituary: Bent Juel-Jensen 1922-2006
Spink Numismatic Circular, June 2007, Vol. CXV/3, p.154.
By V West.
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Juel-Jensen, B.E., and Atkins, B., 1994. Add "See correspondence from Juel-Jensen in
Spink Numismatic Circular, May 1994, Vol. CII/4, p.166".
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Juel-Jensen, B.E., and Atkins, B., 1996. The Gold Coinage of Aksum: New Analyses,
Spink Numismatic Circular, May 1996, Vol. CIV/4, pp.124-5.
Analyses of 25 Aksumite and two Yemeni gold coins.
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Juel-Jensen, B.E., and Munro-Hay, S.C., 1996. Correspondence (on Errata in Aksumite Coinage),
Spink Numismatic Circular, March 1996, Vol. CIV/2, p.43.
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Keck, R., and Hahn, W.R.O., 2020. Die administrativen Beizechen in der aksumitischen Münzprägung
- ein Erklärungsversuch, Cista Mystica, Festschrift für Wolfgang Szaivert
(ed. Baer, M., Fischer-Bossert, W., and Schindel, N.),
Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte der Universität Wien 23, pp.279-83.
Suggests that the symbols on early Aksumite gold and silver coins indicate consecutive issues,
and those on later silver and copper coins indicate parallel workshops.
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Keck, R., and Hahn, W.R.O., 2023. How the privy marks on Aksumite coins might be interpreted,
Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society 253, Autumn 2023, pp2-5.
An English version of Keck and Hahn 2020.
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Kowalewski, P., 2011. Aksumitische Münzen aus dem Nachlass von Enno Littmann,
In Kaiserlichem Auftrag - Die deutsche Aksum-Expedition 1906 unter Enno Littmann,
ed. Wenig, S., Wiesbaden 2011, Vol. 2, pp.367-72.
Catalogues and illustrates the 20 Aksumite coins (two silver and 18 copper) deposited by Littmann in the
Staatsbibliotek Berlin, including the unusual Ousanas silver Aksumite Coinage type 25. The obverse of coin 16
is incorrectly illustrated by that of coin 6, but is shown in the drawing in Plate 3.
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Kowalewski, P., 2014. Staatssymbole und Regalia auf aksumitischen Münzen,
Orbis Aethiopicus XIV, ed. Raunig, W. and Prince Asfa-Wossen Asserate, pp.77-93.
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Krishnamurthy, R., 1999. Aksumite Coins of Ethiopia from Karur, Tamil Nadu,
Studies in South Indian Numismatics 8, pp.58-64.
Publishes two "Aksumite" coins. The first is an anonymous Aksumite copper,
but the second is not Aksumite.
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Krishnamurthy, R., 2000. Non-Roman Ancient Foreign Coins from Karur in India,
Garnet Publishers, Chennai.
Chapter 8 "Aksumite Coins from Karur" pp.79-84 publishes the same two coins as Krishnamurthy 1999.
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Luegmeyer, A., 1998. Review (of Aksumite Coinage), Aethiopica 1, 1998, pp.250-9.
In German. For another review see West 1996.
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Marin, T.S., 2023. Aksumite Coinage, Africa and Byzantium (ed. Muscat, M.M.),
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, pp. 108-111.
Catalogue of an exhibition shown at the Metropolitan Museum November 2023 to March 2024 and Cleveland Museum of Art
April to July 2024. The coins illustrated are from the American Numismatic Society.
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Marot, T., 1998. Las Monedas del Macellum de Geresa, Madrid.
In Spanish with English abstract. Coin 509 is an anonymous Aksumite copper (Aksumite Coinage type 51-2)
discussed at pp. 103-4.
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Martínez Chico, D. and González García, A., 2019. The Abyan Governorate Hoard of Late Roman Solidi
and Aksumite Gold Coins, Numismatic Chronicle, Vol. 179, 2019, pp.373-80, pl. 47-8.
Sixteen Roman solidi (Constantius II to Valentinian I) and seven Aksumite gold coins (three Ebana, one Ousanas II
and three Kaleb) found in Yemen in 2018, presumed part of a larger hoard.
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Masiero, A., 2001. Cenni di Storia e di Numismatica Aksumita,
Panorama Numismatica 158, December 2001, pp.24-6.
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Metlich, M.A., 2006. Aksumite Gold Coins and their Relation to the Roman-Indian Trade,
Dal Denarius al Dinar - l'Oriente a la Moneta Roma (Rome, 16-18 September 2004), pp.99-103.
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Mordini, A., 1967. Add: "Part II" after "XXIX"; and "Translated by C Veldettaro".
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Munro-Hay, S.C., 1979ii.Replace "87ff." by "87-91".
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Munro-Hay, S.C., 1984iv. Replace "no pagination" by "pp.1-16".
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+Munro-Hay, S.C., 1995. A New Gold Coin of King MHDYS of Aksum,
Numismatic Chronicle, Vol. 155, 1995, pp.275-7, pl.50.
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+Munro-Hay, S.C., 1999. Catalogue of the Aksumite Coins in the British Museum, British Museum Press.
Reviewed in Hahn 2000vii, Juel-Jensen 1999iv, Ricci 1999 and West 1999ii. An omission is the forgery
Anzani 1926/281 described
on the museum web site.
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Munro-Hay, S.C., 1999ii. Ethiopia and Alexandria - Chronology of the Conversion of Ethiopia,
Nubica et Aethiopica IV/V, Warsaw, 1999, pp.67-76.
The numismatic evidence is reviewed at pp.73-76 .
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Munro-Hay, S.C., 2000. A New Gold Coin of King Ousana of Aksum,
Spink Numismatic Circular, October 2000, Vol. CVIII/5, p.229.
A new type with the new Aksumite Coinage type number 90a.
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Munro-Hay, S.C., 2003. Entry for "Armah", Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Volume 1, A-C
(ed. Uhlig, S.), Wiesbaden, p.343.
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Munro-Hay, S.C., 2005. Entry for "Gersem", Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Volume 2, D-Ha
(ed. Uhlig, S.), Wiesbaden, p.772.
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[Munro-Hay, S.C.], 2005. Obituary,
Spink Numismatic Circular, February 2005, Vol. CXIII/1, p.16.
A short unattributed obituary, reporting the death of Stuart Munro-Hay [in 2004] aged 57.
For a fuller obituary see Phillipson 2005.
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Munzi, M., 1999. Esotismo Monetario in Africa Orientale e Arabia Meridionale tra Antichità e Medioevo,
Annali dell'Istituto Italiano di Numismatica 46, Rome, 1999, pp.291-311.
See especially pp. 297-8 and 305-9.
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