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| Issuer | Umayyad Caliphate |
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| Year | 696-750 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | ND (696-750) |
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The Jund al-Urdunn — the military district of Jordan — was one of the four administrative divisions the Umayyads carved out of greater Syria, and its anonymous copper fals circulated at the lowest functional level of a monetary system deliberately tiered to keep gold and silver out of everyday transactions. These anonymous provincial issues were produced without caliph names precisely because the Umayyad reform coinage of 696–698 under Abd al-Malik had standardized the upper denominations; copper was left to local mints with far looser oversight.
Album 166 encompasses considerable variation in fabric and weight across known specimens, reflecting decentralized striking rather than any single controlled mint output.