Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Time of the Rashidun. Pseudo-Byzantine types. Fals (Bronze, 23 mm, 2.43 g, 12 h), imitating a EN T૪TO NIKA follis of Constans II, uncertain mint, circa AH 38-50 = AD 658-670. Imperial figure standing facing, wearing crown, holding long cross in his left hand and globus cruciger in his right; around, traces of legend. Rev. Large m in center; around, traces of legend. H. Pottier, I. Schulze and W. Schulze: 'Pseudo-Byzantine Coinage...', in: RBN 154 (2008), Class IV, groub b, Fig. 3. Rare. An interesting example of particularly wild style. Very fine.


The Byzantine EN T૪TO NIKA ('in this [sign] conquer') issues, struck under Constans II in 641-648, commemorated the famous vision of a cross of light, which Constantine the Great allegedly saw in the night before the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312.