Program of the Boris Kochnev Memorial Seminar 2021

13 April 2021

Photo: UHH/S. Heidemann

The program for the 13th meeting of the Boris Kochnev Memorial Seminar in Middle Eastern and Central Asian Numismatics at Hofstra University has been published. The Seminar will take place April 17-18, 2021 on Zoom.

Those who plan to attend as listeners are asked to register by sending an email to Aleksandr.Naymark@hofstra.edu – a link to the zoom session will be sent in response.

Saturday, April 17 - 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. New York time

Marvin W. Kushnet (Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East):
Reflections on Cypriot Trade: The Evidence of Imported Greek Pottery and Early Coinage in the Late Archaic and Classical Periods.

Pankaj Tandon (Boston University):
Was Toramana Really Alchon?

Eugeny Goncharov (Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow):
A collection of coins from Jety-asar in the lower Syr darya region.

Break (everybody are cordially invited to drink their own coffee in the quiet of their own homes)

Joe Cribb (British Museum, London) - Pavel Petrov (Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan, Alma-ata):
A hoard of Sasanian coins from Kazakhstan.

Aleksandr Naymark (Hofstra University):
Immobilized types in Sogdian coinage.

Sunday, April 18 - 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. New York time

Michael Bates (American Numismatic Society, New York):
Early Coinage of Marwanid Kufa with Muhammad rasul Allah, 72-73 (691-93).

Richard Christie (Okanagan College, Kelowna, BC, Canada):
Exciting Discoveries from Tabaristan's First Ispahbad – Farkhan.

Stuart Sears (Arabic Language Associates, LLC, Shirley, Massachusetts):
Signs of God: The Representation of Humans and Nature on Early Muslim Coins.

Break (everybody are cordially invited to drink their own coffee in the quiet of their own homes)

Jonathan Ouellet (Leiden University, Netherlands):
Defining Otrar: Coinage in the Otrar Oasis during the Early Islamic Era.

Anvar Atakhodzhaev (Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Samarqand):
On the early numismatic history of Ghuz/Oghuz (11th century).

Stefan Heidemann (Hamburg University, Germany):
Countermarking Imported Coins: A Modern Example from the Fringes of the Ottoman Empire.
Abstract: In the history of moneys, many historians are not aware of long-range import of coins, which became indigenous coinage in the receiving countries. Countermarking is often method to control the new imported currency. After an introduction about this phenomenon in the past and in the contemporary history, one modern example will be studied in detail as case study. The countermarking of late Ottoman coins in the Hijāz.