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Fals - Anonymous
| Issuer | Tanukh, Tribal federation of |
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| Year | 705-715 |
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| Value | Fals (1⁄60) |
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| Obverse description | Plain field bearing a three-line Kufic Arabic inscription reading the Shahada partial formula, arranged horizontally across the flan without border or additional ornament. The script is angular early Kufic in style, characteristic of the post-reform Umayyad transitional coinage period. The coin surface is irregularly shaped, as typical of hammered copper fals of this era. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Tanukh were an Arab tribal confederation settled in the northern Syrian steppe and Jazira region, and their brief window of autonomous copper coinage falls precisely within the chaotic transitional decade when Umayyad monetary reform was still consolidating control over provincial minting. Anonymous copper fals of this type were not struck by a centralized authority in any meaningful administrative sense — local tribal leaders and regional strongmen filled the vacuum left by the collapse of Byzantine and Sasanian small-change networks. A#189 places this piece within a documented but thinly catalogued group.