Islamic Umayyad Fals Amman Lily Type A166 Rare Genuine. Scarce Umayyad bronze fals struck at ‘Amman featuring the distinctive central lily device. The type corresponds to Album 166 and is one of the recognized minor-mint issues of Jund al-Urdunn.
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Correct Abbasid bronze fabric, Kufic calligraphy, and mint/date format consistent with Ilisch 5 and Lowick/Savage 339. No signs of modern tooling or casting. During this period, Raqqa/ar-Râfiqa was effectively a political center of the Abbasid Empire.
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Mint: Tabariya (Tiberias). Reference: cf. Album 190; related to the “Tree Type” Tabariya series. Tabariya (ancient Tiberias) was an important administrative and military center in Jund al-Urdunn. Bronze fulus from this mint are collected for their stylistic diversity and regional calligraphic variations.
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Ancient Islamic Umayyad Anonymous Fals Amman Type SNA Tübingen 493 Very Rare Genuine. These provincial fulus were struck for local circulation and are known for their regional calligraphic variations and compact flans.
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Caliphate of Mu'Awiya (660-680). Weight: 3.91 g. Condition: Very fine.
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Mint: Tabariya (Tiberias). Outer margin: bism Allah duriba hadha al-fals fi Tabariya. Tabariya was an important administrative center in Jund al-Urdunn, and its bronze coinage is known for unusual symbolic devices including trees, birds, crescents, and floral forms.
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Copper fulus of the Bahri Mamluk sultans circulated widely across Syria and Egypt during the 14th century. This coin was struck at the important Damascus mint during the reign of al-Nasir Hasan. Mamluk Sultanate (Bahri).
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Remains of the Greek legend from the Byzantine prototype appear in the field. They represent one of the earliest phases of Islamic coinage before the later epigraphic reforms introduced under the Umayyads.
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