A study on pre-Ottoman Islamic Period coins in Afyonkarahisar Museum

Of the 110 pre-Ottoman Islamic period coins in the Afyonkarahisar Museum, 12 of them belong to the Umayyad State, 7 of them are copper and 5 of them are silver. According to the inventory records, 7 of these coins have no period information, 3 belong to the period of Walid I and 2 to the period of Hisham bin Abdulmalik. Of the 27 coins of the Abbasid Empire, 6 are copper, 1 is bronze and 20 are silver. The period information of 12 of these coins is not entered, 2 belong to the reign of Razi Billah, 7 to the reign of Harun Rashid, 3 to the reign of Abdullah al Mahdi, 2 to the reign of Muqtedir Billah and 1 to the reign of Mansur. One copper coin belonging to the Danismedli Principality belongs to the reign of Melik Zünnün b. Muhammed. All of the 24 coins belonging to the Anatolian Seljuk period are silver. 1 of them does not have sufficient period information, 2 belong to Alaeddin Keykubad I, 2 to Gıyaseddin Keyhüsrev II, 7 to Alaeddin Keykubad II, 10 to Izzeddin Keykavus II, and 2 to Kılıç Arslan IV. Of the 22 coins belonging to the Artuqid Principality, 20 are copper, 1 is bronze and 1 is silver. There is no information about the period of 3 of them, 3 of them belong to the reign of Fahreddin Kara Arslan, 7 of them to the reign of Nasırüddin Artuk Arslan, 4 of them to the reign of Hüsameddin Yolluk Arslan, 2 of them to the reign of Nasruddin Mahmud, 2 of them to the reign of Necmeddin Alpı and 1 of them to the reign of Hüsameddin Timurtaş. There are a total of 15 silver coins belonging to the Candaroğulları Principality, 5 of which are unperiodized and 10 of which belong to the period of Isfendiyar Bey. There are 3 silver coins belonging to the Germiyanogullari Principality and belong to the period of Şah Çelebi. The only silver coin belonging to the Hamidogullari period belongs to the reign of Mehmet Bey. Of the 5 silver coins belonging to the Ilkhanids, 4 belong to the Olcaytu period and 1 to the Abu Said period. In this study, a general conclusion and evaluation has been made about the coins of the Islamic period that are available to us from the coins in the Afyonkarahisar Museum. Keywords: Coin, Museum, Afyonkarahisar, Pre-Ottoman