I picked up a couple of nice 'Islamic' coins, successfully identifying many of them,
but there are a couple of them that I have found difficult to
work out beyond the
basic
types, and comparisons with a few broadly similar examples.
This is a
Standing Caliph type and from what I can gather, it has a resemblance
to this one (as described):
Umayyad Caliphate. temp. 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. AH 65-86 / AD 685-705. Æ Fals
(23mm, 3.71 g, 6h).
Arab-Byzantine Standing Caliph
type. Ilya (Jerusalem)
mint.
Obv: Caliph standing facing
Rev: Large retrograde m with • and – below;
filistin in Arabic to left, ilya to right.
Goodwin Type 3;
SICA I 730-1
var.;
DOCAB 93;
Album 3545.
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3328785 Is this likely to be correct? What about the
mint? Reference?
There is a lot missing, but hopefully enough is
still there for a proper
identification.
Thanks (again) in advance,
Walter