 With more than 250 confirmed mints and a geographical distribution including Iran and large parts of Anatolia, the Caucasus, Mesopotamia, and Central Asia, the project consumed the last twelve years of Diler’s life.When he died of lung cancer in 2005, the book remained unfinished.Final editing fell to his wife, Emine Nur, Garö Kürkman, and the Bremen-based numismatist, Johann-Christoph Hinrichs.