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Umayyad Caliphate. Yubna (Palestine) AH 80-90.
Fals Bronze
27 mm, 4,07 g
In field: la ilaha | illa Allah | wahdahu, within double circle / In margin: bismillah duriba hadha al-fals bi Yubna, (Yavneh in southern Palestine).
good very fine, Very well struck, complete and in exceptional condition for this usually crude issue.
cf: A-191. SNAT-223. W-Th.17. all without the circle around Muhammad | rasul | Allah on the rev.
(RRR).
Much rarer than the Standing Caliph Arab-Byzantine fals of the same mint.
An unrecorded type for this RRR Mint!
Based on written sources and archaeology, the history of Yavneh/Jabneh/ Yibna/ yubna goes back to the Iron Age and possibly to the Bronze Age.
It was an important Jewish cultural and andministration center as the Hebrew Bible mentions Yavneh repeatedly, as does Josephus. It later became the seat of Christian bishops untill one of the sahaba captured it during the caliphate of Abu Bakr.
According to the Islamic historian al-Baladhuri (died 892 CE) mentioned Yubna as one of ten towns in Jund Filastin conquered by the Rashidun army led by 'Amr ibn al-'As in the early 7th century.
Also in the 9th century, Ya'qubi (died 897/8 CE) wrote that Yubna was an ancient city built on a hill that was inhabited by Samaritans.
Al-Muqaddasi, writing around 985, said that "Yubna has a beautiful mosque. From this place come the excellent figs known by the name of Damascene. Yaqut wrote that in Yubna there was a tomb said to be that of Abu Hurairah, the companion (sahaba) of the Prophet. The author of Marasid also adds that tomb seen here is also said to be that of ´Abd Allah ibn Abi Sarh, another companion (sahaba) of the Prophet.
References: Muk.176, quoted in Le Strange, 1890, p. 553, Le Strange, 1890, p. 553, The conquered towns Yibna. (Bil. 138), quoted in Le Strange, 1890, p. 28.
Cf. much finer than a similar example see Auction 22, #203 graded VF realized $500.
From the Tareq Hani collection.
Fals Bronze
27 mm, 4,07 g
In field: la ilaha | illa Allah | wahdahu, within double circle / In margin: bismillah duriba hadha al-fals bi Yubna, (Yavneh in southern Palestine).
good very fine, Very well struck, complete and in exceptional condition for this usually crude issue.
cf: A-191. SNAT-223. W-Th.17. all without the circle around Muhammad | rasul | Allah on the rev.
(RRR).
Much rarer than the Standing Caliph Arab-Byzantine fals of the same mint.
An unrecorded type for this RRR Mint!
Based on written sources and archaeology, the history of Yavneh/Jabneh/ Yibna/ yubna goes back to the Iron Age and possibly to the Bronze Age.
It was an important Jewish cultural and andministration center as the Hebrew Bible mentions Yavneh repeatedly, as does Josephus. It later became the seat of Christian bishops untill one of the sahaba captured it during the caliphate of Abu Bakr.
According to the Islamic historian al-Baladhuri (died 892 CE) mentioned Yubna as one of ten towns in Jund Filastin conquered by the Rashidun army led by 'Amr ibn al-'As in the early 7th century.
Also in the 9th century, Ya'qubi (died 897/8 CE) wrote that Yubna was an ancient city built on a hill that was inhabited by Samaritans.
Al-Muqaddasi, writing around 985, said that "Yubna has a beautiful mosque. From this place come the excellent figs known by the name of Damascene. Yaqut wrote that in Yubna there was a tomb said to be that of Abu Hurairah, the companion (sahaba) of the Prophet. The author of Marasid also adds that tomb seen here is also said to be that of ´Abd Allah ibn Abi Sarh, another companion (sahaba) of the Prophet.
References: Muk.176, quoted in Le Strange, 1890, p. 553, Le Strange, 1890, p. 553, The conquered towns Yibna. (Bil. 138), quoted in Le Strange, 1890, p. 28.
Cf. much finer than a similar example see Auction 22, #203 graded VF realized $500.
From the Tareq Hani collection.