Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Yazid I ibn Mu'awiya, AH 60-64 / AD 680-683. Fals (Bronze, 21 mm, 3.52 g, 6 h), Arab-Byzantine type, 'Pseudo-Damascus' mint. Imperial figure seated facing, holding long cross in his right hand and globus cruciger in his left. Rev. Large M in center; above, vertical line; below, star; around blundered legend, probably reading 'jazza hadha dimashq wafiyah' ('this [fals] current in Dimashq' in Kufic). DOCAB -. Goodwin&Gyselen p. 94-5, Cat. 52 (O21E, same obverse die). Unpublished with this reverse type. Very fine.



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