Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Mu'awiya I ibn Abi Sufyan, AH 41-60 / AD 661-680. Fals (Bronze, 22 mm, 4.50 g, 6 h), Arab-Byzantine type, Hims. Imperial figure standing facing, wearing crown surmounted by cross, holding long cross in his right hand and globus cruciger in his left; above, crescent; in right field, six-pointed star; around counterclockwise KAΛON ('good' in Greek). Rev. Large M between E/M/H - C/I/C; above, staurogram between two pellets; below, Δ; in exergue, tayyib ('good' in Kufic). Goodwin&Gyselen p. 224, 19. Rare. Very fine.


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