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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 3833113, member: 99456"]Reviving this link, to share this bilingual Arab-Byzantine coin. Between the C.Foss catalog from DOC and this CT thread (thanks [USER=44210]@ValiantKnight[/USER] and [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER]), I have a little better understanding of this coin and where it came from. </p><p><br /></p><p>Foss describes it as from "the most extensive issue of the whole of Arab-Byzantine series (at least 59 obverse and 63 reverse dies); coins of Emesa are more common that those of any other mint...". <a href="https://www.persee.fr/doc/numi_0484-8942_1987_num_6_29_1904" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.persee.fr/doc/numi_0484-8942_1987_num_6_29_1904" rel="nofollow">This article</a>, referenced, from W.A. Oddy 1985 on "The Constans II Bust type of Arab Byzantine Coins of Hims" is available on-line. </p><p><br /></p><p>"good" a statement that it is "good" for use as currency or of good weight standard...?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1018639[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Anonymous, Umayyad (=Mu'Awiya?) Caliphate AD 660-680 </b>(date listed in C. Foss)</p><p><b>Obv</b>: KA/Λ/ON (good or passes) in left field, "bi-Hims" (Emesa in Arabic) in right field<span style="color: #336600"> <b>with star below</b></span>, facing bust, beardless, wearing cuirass and paludamentum (military cape), with cross on diadem, holding globus cruciger in right hand</p><p><b>Rev</b>: Large <font size="6">m</font>, E/M/I in left field, o*o above, C/H/C in right field, "tayyib" (Arabic for "good") in exergue</p><p><b>Mint</b>: Hims (Emesa)</p><p><b>Size</b>: 20.5mm, 3.90g, die axis 6 (ref: C.Foss catalog #65 which is 21mm and 3.93g)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 3833113, member: 99456"]Reviving this link, to share this bilingual Arab-Byzantine coin. Between the C.Foss catalog from DOC and this CT thread (thanks [USER=44210]@ValiantKnight[/USER] and [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER]), I have a little better understanding of this coin and where it came from. Foss describes it as from "the most extensive issue of the whole of Arab-Byzantine series (at least 59 obverse and 63 reverse dies); coins of Emesa are more common that those of any other mint...". [URL='https://www.persee.fr/doc/numi_0484-8942_1987_num_6_29_1904']This article[/URL], referenced, from W.A. Oddy 1985 on "The Constans II Bust type of Arab Byzantine Coins of Hims" is available on-line. "good" a statement that it is "good" for use as currency or of good weight standard...? [ATTACH=full]1018639[/ATTACH] [B]Anonymous, Umayyad (=Mu'Awiya?) Caliphate AD 660-680 [/B](date listed in C. Foss) [B]Obv[/B]: KA/Λ/ON (good or passes) in left field, "bi-Hims" (Emesa in Arabic) in right field[COLOR=#336600] [B]with star below[/B][/COLOR], facing bust, beardless, wearing cuirass and paludamentum (military cape), with cross on diadem, holding globus cruciger in right hand [B]Rev[/B]: Large [SIZE=6]m[/SIZE], E/M/I in left field, o*o above, C/H/C in right field, "tayyib" (Arabic for "good") in exergue [B]Mint[/B]: Hims (Emesa) [B]Size[/B]: 20.5mm, 3.90g, die axis 6 (ref: C.Foss catalog #65 which is 21mm and 3.93g)[/QUOTE]
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