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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3711399, member: 85693&quot;]I got this by accident in an eBay lot and had a hard time attributing it.&nbsp; I thought it was Constans II or something from Heraclius.&nbsp; Apparently this is an Islamic imitation of a Byzantine follis - I found a couple of others online in auction records (see my attribution notes below). </p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly, they both had the same fake Byzantine reign-date, although mine is out of order compared to the two I found in auctions.&nbsp; I enhanced some of the details, since my specimen is pretty cruddy.&nbsp; That loopy thing around the emperor seems to be a characteristic of these Umayyad imitations - I&#039;ve never really seen that on a Byzantine coin, although many of you out there have a lot more experience than I do at this sort of thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any corrections would be welcome.&nbsp; And please share any of this sort of thing you might have. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]994597[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Umayyad Caliphate&nbsp; &nbsp; Æ Fals</b></p><p><b>Mu&#039;awiya I ibn Abi Sufyan </b></p><p><b>(c. 660s - 680 A.D.)&nbsp; </b></p><p><b>Dimashq (Damascus) Mint </b></p><p>Standing imperial figure, with long cross &amp; globus cruciger; [bird] on T left, Λ/Є/O r. /</p><p>Large M; staurogram above, (crescent below?); A/N/O left; II/Ч/X right; ΔAMI in exergue.</p><p>(4.69 grams / 18 mm) </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Attribution Notes:</b></p><p><br /></p><p>This specimen is very similar to lots in CNG: eAuction 298 and Classical Numismatic Group - Electronic Auction 443, Lot 672.&nbsp; Both lots have reverse dates X/Ч/II to right; this one is in different order:&nbsp; II/Ч/X</p><p>SICA I, 560-2; Walker 7; DOCAB 49-51; Album 3517.1.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]994595[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]994596[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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