Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. Temp. Hisham ibn 'Abd al-Malik, AH 105-125 / AD 724-743. Fals (Bronze, 22 mm, 2.40 g), citing the Umayyad governor Yahya ibn Muhammad, al-Mawsil, after AH 122 = AD 739. Tree in square; around, legend in Kufic. Rev. Legend in Kufic within circle; around, legend in Kufic. Album 193. SICA II, -. Very rare. Minor traces of overstriking and with light deposits, otherwise, very fine.


From the collection of Dr. D. Löer, ex Album 34, 23 May 2019, 296.

This coin was overstruck on a fals of Walid ibn Talid, governor of al-Mawsil in the years AD 732-739.