Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Time of the Rashidun. Pseudo-Byzantine types. Fals (Bronze, 16x24 mm, 4.90 g, 12 h), imitating a follis of Constans II, uncertain mint, circa AH 24/5-26/7 / AD 645-647. Crowned and draped bust facing, holding globus cruciger in his right hand. Rev. Large M in center; around, blundered legend. H. Pottier, I. Schulze and W. Schulze: 'Pseudo-Byzantine Coinage in Syria under Arab Rule', in: RBN 154 (2008), Pl. VII, class III.1b. Very rare. Very fine.


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