Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Time of the Rashidun. Pseudo-Byzantine types. Fals (Bronze, 19x29 mm, 4.71 g, 6 h), imitating a 'Cyprus follis', uncertain mint, AH 15/16-23/4 / AD 637-643. 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/II ; 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), Pl. III, Class I.1a.2. Overstruck on a halved Byzantine follis. Very fine.


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