Tag: byzantine coins

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Letter from Ya’qūb b. Ismāʿīl al-Andalusī, Sicily, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1065. Mentions cinnamon, silk and linen; Abū l-Surūr b. Avraham Ibn Sighmar; the ship of Abū Abdallāh (Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ); the demand for Byzantine coins; and the passing of the Jewish judge of Palermo Maṣliaḥ b. Eliyyahu. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #576) VMR
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, from Alexandria, to Yosef b. Eli Kohen Fasi, Fustat. Around 1055. Regarding trades of iron and coins, especially Byzantine dinar quarters. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #260) VMR
Letter fragment from Isḥāq b. Khalaf, probably from Alexandria, to David b. Shaʿya, probably in Fustat. Around 1060. Mentions the arrival of Byzantine and Andalusī merchants, as well as the ships of Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ and Ibn Shiblūn, shipments of textiles, and a deal in Byzantine quarter-dinars. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #738) VMR