Fals - Anonymous

The anonymous copper fals of the early Umayyad period occupies an awkward transitional moment: the caliphate had not yet committed to the purely epigraphic coinage Abd al-Malik would impose after 696–697, and local mints across Syria, Palestine, and Iraq were still producing imitative types drawing on Byzantine and Sasanian prototypes. The monetary reform of 696–697 that standardized the gold dinar and silver dirham largely bypassed copper, which remained semi-autonomous and locally administered for decades afterward.