Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Time of the Rashidun. Pseudo-Byzantine types. Fals (Bronze, 19x27 mm, 4.24 g, 7 h), imitating a follis of Constans II, uncertain mint, circa 24/5-26/7 AH / 645-647 AD. IҺPЄR BCOΛSSI Crowned and draped bust facing, holding globus cruciger in his right hand. Rev. Large M between A/N/A and II/I/[Ч]; above, cross; below; Γ. H. Pottier, I. Schulze and W. Schulze: 'Pseudo-Byzantine Coinage in Syria under Arab Rule', in: RBN 154 (2008), p. 89, class III.1a. Very rare and in exceptional condition for the issue. Good very fine.


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

The obverse legend is a blundered version of Constans' INPER CONST.