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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;7Calbrey, post: 2036117, member: 38412&quot;]Thanks. I believe jcm is right. I&#039;ve corrected the position of the obverse, and it&#039;s clear now that the famous globus cruciger ( spherical globe bearing a cross ) is there. You can watch it in this new scan above. That was a Byzantine coin by origine. Emperor Constans II died at the age of 38 in the year 668. He was organizing the defenses of the West against the Muslims. There were no Arab or Islamic coins yet. The question remains of how the image of the Calif replaced the image of the Christian or Byzantine Emperor. Was the coin tooled ? Or over struck or what? Then the the mint &quot; Duriba &quot; is at the bottom of obverse ( Calif ) or the bottom of reverse &quot; M &quot; ?&nbsp; Here is the new scan..[ATTACH=full]371077[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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