Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Mu'awiya I ibn Abi Sufyan, AH 41-60 / AD 661-680. Fals (Bronze, 21 mm, 4.17 g, 12 h), Arab-Byzantine type, Hims. Imperial figure standing facing, wearing crown surmounted by cross, holding long cross in his right hand and globus cruciger in his left; in field to left, 'bism Allah' ('in the name of Allah' in Kufic); in field to right, blundered KAΛON ('good' in Greek). Rev. Large M between E/M/H-C/I/C; above, staurogram; below, Δ; in exergue, 'tayyib' ('good' in Kufic). DOCAB 40. Goodwin&Gyselen p. 224, 21. Minor scratches, otherwise, about very fine.


Ex Leu Web Auction 8, 29 June 2019, 1825 and previously from a collection of Arab-Byzantine and Crusader coins, formed in the 1990s.