Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Time of the Rashidun. Pseudo-Byzantine types. Fals (Bronze, 18 mm, 5.05 g, 7 h), Arab-Byzantine type, imitating a dodekanummia of Constans II from Alexandria, after AH 24 = AD 645. Imperial figure standing facing, wearing crown surmounted by cross, holding long cross in his right hand and globus cruciger in his left. Rev. Cross potent on globe between B and I; in exergue, AΛЄ[...]. DOCAB 135 var. (IB not BI). Very rare. About very fine.


From the collection of J. Knudsen, formed from the late 1970s to the late 1990s.