Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. Uncertain period (pre-reform), AH 41-77 / AD 661-697. Pashiz (Copper, 21 mm, 0.53 g, 3 h), citing 'Umar' in Kufic, probably the governor Umar ibn Ubayd Allah, ST (Istakhr), circa AH 67-72 = AD 686/7-691/2. Crowned and draped Sasanian-style bust to right; behind head, 'AFZUT GDH ('may his kingship increase' in Pahlawi); before head, WML ('Umar' in Pahlawi). Rev. Horseman wearing crown with a flame nimbus, holding scepter in his right hand and an uncertain object in his left; to left, possibly ST (the mint name in Pahlawi). Album -. Gyselen -. Apparently unpublished and perhaps unique. Some areas of weakness and with light corrosion, otherwise, fine.


From the collection of Dr. D. Löer, formed since the 1970s.