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The Crossless Folles Of Heraclius / S.j. Mansfield -- Across Borders: A Church Historian's Perspective On Contacts Between Byzantium And Syria In The Second Half Of The 7th Century Marek Jankowiak -- The Mardaites / James Howard-johnston -- The Import Of Byzantine Coins To Syria Revisited / Marcus Phillips -- A Preliminary Overview Of Arab-byzantine Coins From Excavations In Israel / Gabriela Bijovsky -- Ugly Square Flan Coins- Another Consistent Group Within The Byzantine-arab Transitional Coinage / Ingrid Schulze -- The Chronology Of The Umayyad Imperial Image Coinage Progress Over The Last 10 Years / Tony Goodwin -- Symbolism And Design On The Early Umayyad Coinage / Andrew Oddy -- The Use Of Pellets On Various Arab-byzantine Issues / Charlie Karukstis -- The Syrian 'orans Figure' Copper Coins / Wolfgang Schulze -- Byzantium And Islam In The Late 7th Century Ad: A 'numismatic War Of Images'? / Luke Treadwell -- The Earliest Dated Islamic Solidi Of North Africa / Trent Jonson -- Coinage And The Monetary Economy In 7th Century Nubia / Tasha Vorderstrasse -- New Fakes - An Update / Ingrid Schulze -- The Standard Terminology In Sica 1 / Tony Goodwin -- Terminology For The Transitional Coinage Struck In 7th Century Syria After The Arab Conquest / Wolfgang Schulze And Andrew Oddy. Edited By Tony Goodwin. Whilst The Main Subject Of The Conference Was The Numismatics Of 7th Century Syria, It Would Have Been Dangerous To Interpret This Too Narrowly And Four Papers Deal With The Wider Subject Of The Relationship Between Byzantium And The Emerging Islamic State.--page V. Includes Bibliographical References.