Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Yazid I ibn Mu'awiya, AH 60-64 / AD 680-683. Fals (Bronze, 18 mm, 3.44 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; to left, O/Є. Rev. Large m in center with serpentines between uprights; to elft, A/N[...]; to right, X[...]; in exergue, [...]MO. Cf. Goodwin&Gyselen p. 91, 17 (for similar type). Very rare. Minor deposits, otherwise, very fine.


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