The Leipzig Numismatic Contest of 1752 - An Incentive From the Imperial Coin Collection to Reestabilish the Ability to Attribute Arabic Coins

The contribution aims at a double goal. On the one hand, it reevaluates the significance of plates of islamic coins published in 1752. And on the other hand, it discusses the origins of islamic Numismatics. The author argues that Islamic Numismatics, the roots of which go back to the age of Enlightenment, was the result of the efforts of both catholic and protestants scholars who preferred to embrace Philosophy, rather than Theology, for carrying out their researches