Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Time of the Rashidun. Pseudo-Byzantine types. Fals (Bronze, 17x25 mm, 5.40 g, 7 h), Arab-Byzantine, imitating a follis of Constans II, uncertain mint, AH 24/5-26/7 = AD 645-647. Draped imperial bust facing, wearing crown with cross, holding cross in his right hand; in upper left field, six-pointed star; in upper right field, crescent; in field to right, S. Rev. Large M between blundered legends; above, cross; below; crescent. DOCAB, 7. H. Pottier, I. Schulze and W. Schulze: Pseudo-Byzantine Coinage..., in: RBN 154 (2008), p. 89, Class III.1c. Some deposits, otherwise, very fine.


From a European collection, formed before 2005.