Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Mu'awiya I ibn Abi Sufyan, AH 41-60 / AD 661-680. Fals (Bronze, 23 mm, 3.17 g, 1 h), Arab-Byzantine type, Tabariya (Tiberias). Three imperial figures standing facing, each wearing crown surmounted by cross and holding globus cruciger. Rev. Large M in center; above, monogram; below, officina symbol; around, blundered THBEPIAΔOC; in field to right, 'tabariya' in Kufic. DOCAB 81. Goodwin&Gyselen p. 226, 30. Very attractive for the issue. Minor areas of weakness, otherwise, very fine.


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