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Fals - Anonymous al-Bab
| Issuer | Umayyad Caliphate |
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| Year | 696-750 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | ND (696-750) |
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Al-Bab — ancient Bab al-Abwab, "the Gate of Gates" — was the Umayyad frontier post at Derbent, where the Caucasus mountains compress to a narrow coastal corridor between the mountains and the Caspian. The caliphate seized it from the Sassanids and used it as a staging point for raids into Khazar territory through much of the 7th and 8th centuries. Anonymous copper fulus from frontier mints like this one circulated in an economy the central Damascus administration barely touched, filling a denominational gap that the reformed silver and gold coinage of Abd al-Malik's 696 monetary overhaul had no interest in addressing.