ISLAMIC/Umayyad; Arab-Byzantine Syria, c. CE 670-690

 AE Fals, 20 mm, 3.89g, Homs (Emesa) mint

Album 3516 var. 

O: Standing imperial figure holding long cross and globus cruciger, 'bismillah' in Arabic on left, KALON on right.

R: M surmounted by cross with delta below, and Arabic "Tayyib" in ex. on left of M, EMI on right CIC

ISLAMIC/Mughal India; Akbar CE 1556-1605

 

AR Rupee 26 mm, 11.35 g, Ahmedabad (Gujarat) mint AH 983 or 

CE 1575-1576

Mitchener 3033

K 80.2

O: Shahada in center square. Areas outside square not fully legible.

R: جلال الدين محمد اكبر بادشاه غازي in center square, areas outside square

 not fully legible.

 

Ex: W. Esty

Ex: James B. Lovette Collection 2007

Coins Weekly article about Akbar 

Coins Weekly article about Akbar part 2

ISLAMIC; Umayyad; Jund Filastin c. CE 717-737

 

Album 185

AE Fals, 15 mm, 2.71 g, ar-Ramla mint

O: tree in center, around shahada

R: denomination and mint around center crescent.

 

Ex: W. Esty, purchased in Jerusalem in 1972

13th Century Minaret ("White Tower or Tower of the Forty Martyrs") 

of the Masjid al-Abyad in Ramla, taken in 1995. It is said that Napoleon observed the Siege of Jaffa from atop this vantage point in 1799, since it stands six stories it is possible that there was a clear and unobstructed view of Jaffa which is about 20 km to the northwest from Ramla.

ISLAMIC/Umayyad; Arab-Byzantine Syria, c. CE 670-690

 

AE Fals; 21 mm, 3.67 g, Hims (Emesa) mint.

Album 3524

Wilkes 133

O: facing bust. To right بحمص to left KAΛON

R: Cursive M dividing EMI on left and CHC on right and طيب in exergue.