Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Time of the Rashidun. Pseudo-Byzantine types. Fals (Bronze, 30 mm, 4.69 g, 7 h), imitating a 'Cyprus follis', uncertain mint, 15/16 - 23/4 AH / 637-643 AD. Three imperial figures standing facing, each wearing crown surmounted by cross and holding globus cruciger in right hand. Rev. Large M between [A/N/]N/O and X / Ч / I ; above, cross; below; Γ; in exergue, KVΠP. H. Pottier, I. Schulze and W. Schulze: 'Pseudo-Byzantine Coinage in Syria under Arab Rule', in: RBN 154 (2008), p. 88, class I.1a. Attractive earthen highlights. Very fine.


From a collection of Arab-Byzantine and Crusader coins, formed in the 1990s.