Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Mu'awiya I ibn Abi Sufyan, AH 41-60 / AD 661-680. Fals (Bronze, 18 mm, 4.20 g, 8 h), Arab-Byzantine type, Ba'albakk (Heliopolis). Two imperial figures standing facing, holding cruciform scepters in their right hands and the right figure holding globus cruciger in his right hand; above, cross. Rev. Large M in center; below, inverted crescent with line beneath; in left and right field, H/[Λ/Ι/]૪-Π/O/Λ/Є; in exergue, 'ba'albakk' (in Kufic). DOCAB, 60. Goodwin&Gyselen p. 50, 24. Minor deposits, otherwise, about very fine.


Ex Vecchi FPL 14, November 1975, 216 (with collector's ticket).