Fals - Anonymous

The anonymous copper fals of this period predates the sweeping monetary reforms of Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, who between 696 and 698 AD replaced the Byzantine- and Sasanian-derived coinage with a purely epigraphic Islamic currency. Issues struck before that reform often circulated alongside — and were sometimes overstruck on — Byzantine folles and Sasanian drachms, making their precise attribution a persistent challenge for specialists. Mitchiner's classification acknowledges the ambiguity; WI#65 groups pieces that cannot be assigned to a specific mint with confidence.