Ḍuriba bi-Mālṭa ‘minted in Malta’ : deciphering the Kufic legend on the Fāṭimid quarter dinar
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Until the acquisition, by the Central Bank of Malta in 2010, of the gold Fāṭimid quarter dinar, it was inconceivable that Arab Malta could have had its own coinage. Helen W. Brown, in her article about the coins of Muslim Malta, states that “It is not, on the basis of present evidence, suggested that any Muslim coins were struck in Malta itself.” Quite obviously, this acquisition was bound to revive memories of the ‘great Mdina hoard’ of gold coins found in 1698 and known from the descriptions of Ciantar’s Malta Illustrata in 1771.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it