Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Time of the Rashidun. Pseudo-Byzantine types. Fals (Bronze, 27 mm, 4.81 g, 7 h), uncertain mint, circa AH late 20s/early 30s = AD late 640s/early 650s. Two figures standing facing, holding long crosses in their left hands; above, cross. Rev. Large M in center flanked by A/N/N and III/III; below, Γ and KVII. DOCAB -. SICA I, -. T. Goodwin, 'A very peculiar group of early Pseudo-Byzantine coins' in: Coinage and History in the Seventh Century Near East, volume 6, cat. no. 7 (this coin). Very rare. Very fine.


Our coin and the example from Leu Web Auction 7 (2019),1650 are likely the product of the same die engraver, who can be identified by his very distinctive and abstract workmanship.