ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. Uncertain period (post-reform). Fals (Bronze, 20 mm, 1.82 g, 12 h), Maʿdin, undated. Within a dotted circle, ‘lā ilāha illā / Allāh waḥda/hū Muḥammad ra/sūl Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah’ in Arabic). Rev. Within a dotted circle, ‘baraka / li-amīr al-muʾ/minīn min / maʿdinihī’ (‘Abundance for the Commander of the Believers from his mine’ in Arabic). Album B183. Extremely rare. Thick deposits and with light cleaning scratches, otherwise, good fine.



The ‘mine of the Commander of the Believers’ refers to al-Riṣāfa (Sergiopolis).