ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Mu'awiya I ibn Abi Sufyan, AH 41-60 / AD 661-680. Fals (Silver, 22 mm, 5.48 g, 6 h), Arab-Byzantine type, Tabariya (Tiberias), AH 50s-70s = AD circa 670s-680s. Imperial figure standing facing, holding long cross in his right hand and globus cruciger in his left; to left, 'Tabariya' in Arabic; to right, uncertain word.
Rev. Large m in center; above, cross; to left, H/I; to right, I/Є and uncertain symbol; below, NKO. Album 3519. DOCAB -. Goodwin&Gyselen -. Leu 34 (1983), 105 = T. Goodwin,The Chronology of the Umayyad Imperial Image Coinage - Progress over the last 10 years, in : T. Goodwin (ed.), Arab-Byzantine Coins and History, 2012, pp. 96-97 = M. Phillips, Single figure coins of Tiberias/Tabariya with bilingual legends, in: A. Oddy (ed.), Coinage and history in the seventh century Near East vol. 2 (2010), p. 73. Very rare. Deposits and with a flan fault
, otherwise, good fine.
Ex Album 31, 17 May 2018, 204.