Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Yazid I ibn Mu'awiya, AH 60-64 / AD 680-683. Fals (Bronze, 19 mm, 3.42 g, 12 h), Arab-Byzantine type, 'Pseudo-Damascus' mint. Imperial figure standing facing, holding long cross in his right hand and globus cruciger in his left; in left field, short palm branch; in upper right field, crescent and six-pointed star; in field to right, ЄΟ. Rev. Large M between X/II/O and A/N; above, monogram; below, officina mark of inverted crescent with short line beneath; in exergue, /MAΔ. Goodwin&Gyselen p. 114, 232. Rare. An unusually attractive and very well centered example. Thin flan crack, otherwise, very fine.


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