Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Yazid I ibn Mu'awiya, AH 60-64 / AD 680-683. Fals (Bronze, 19 mm, 4.30 g, 8 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 field to left, T; to right, blundered legend. Rev. Large M in center; above, monogram; below, officina mark of inverted crescent; around slightly blundered legend reading 'darb dimashq ja'iz' ('current issue [of] Dimashq' in Arabic). Cf. Goodwin&Gyselen p. 81, Fig. 18 (for similar reverses of other close imitations). Minor cleaning scratches, otherwise, very fine.


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