Umayyad Caliphate. Al-Mawsil (Iraq). al-Walid b. Talid, governor AH 114-121.
Fals AE
22 mm, 3,33 g
Legend in three lines / Legend in three lines and in margin (bihi al-walid in second part of reverse marginal legend).
good very fine
A-193; W-931var.
According to Album:
(A-193), al-Mawsil mints the Dated examples are 97 (sometimes incorrectly engraved as 79).
(S), 110 (RR) and 114 (RRR). Other types struck after about 110 are undated but usually bear the name of the local governor, and are frequently overstruck on previous types. Twelve types were catalogued by Gernot Rotter in American Numismatic Society Museum Notes, vol. 19, 1974.
From the Tareq Hani collection.