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Umayyad Caliphate.
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cf. Walker 790-792, cf. Bones Halab 3.1
AE post-reform anonymous fals (22-23 mm.), struck at the Halab (Aleppo) mint after ca. 90 A.H. (= 708 A.D.)
Obv: la Ilaha / illa Allah / wahdah (= There is no god but Allah) in three lines within double circle.
Rev: Muhammed / rasul / Allah (= Muhammad is the prophet of Allah), in three lines within circle. Bism Allah duriba hadha l-fals bi-Halab waf around margin (possibly blundered).
Note: The Umayyad falus were essentially a local civic coinage struck under several governors and local officials with very few, if any, struck by order of the Caliphs.
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