ISLAMIC, 'Abbasid Caliphate. temp. Al-Mansur, AH 136-158 / AD 754-775. Fals (Bronze, 21 mm, 1.86 g, 2 h), citing governor Yazid ibn Usayd, Bardaʿa, AH 142 = AD 759/60. Within a dotted circle, ‘lā ilāha / illā Allāh’ (‘There is no deity but Allah’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘bism Allāh mimmā amara bihī Yazīd ibn Usayd’ (‘In the name of Allah. From that ordered by Yazid son of Usayd’ in Arabic). Rev. Within a dotted circle, ‘Muḥammad / rasūl / Allāh’ (‘Muhammad is the messenger of Allah’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘ḍuriba bi Bardaʿa sana ithnatayn wa arbaʿīn [wa] miʾa’ (‘Struck in Bardaʿa in the year 142’ in Arabic). Album 315. Rare. Some deposits and with a minor edge crack, otherwise, very fine.