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1 Fals - Anonymous Iran mint
| Issuer | Iran, City of |
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| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Irregular hammered copper flan bearing a large stylized Arabic inscription in the central field, rendered in bold Naskh or Kufic calligraphic script. The legend occupies the majority of the die area and is surrounded by a border of pellets arranged along the inner rim. Additional decorative foliate or star-like elements are visible in the upper field, interspersed among the lettering. The overall execution is characteristic of anonymous provincial Iranian fals coinage, with a somewhat crude but vigorous die-cutting style. |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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Anonymous copper fals of this type circulated widely in early Islamic Iran during a period when the Umayyad and early Abbasid administrations permitted local civic authorities to strike low-denomination copper independently of the central silver dirham coinage. The absence of a caliph's name was not an oversight — it reflects deliberate municipal issuing practice, with the city itself functioning as the nominal authority.
Album 3269 covers a broad grouping; precise attribution within it often hinges on mint city identification from the Arabic text, which on heavily circulated examples is frequently the first detail to become illegible.