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Fals - Anonymous 'Amman
| Issuer | Umayyad Caliphate |
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| Year | 696-750 |
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| Value | 1 Fals (1⁄60) |
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| Obverse description | Central field bearing a multi-line Arabic inscription arranged within a rectangular frame, the text disposed in three or four horizontal registers. The legend is executed in a simple, early Kufic script characteristic of post-reform Umayyad provincial coinage. The coin surface is flat and irregular, consistent with hand-struck hammered fabric, with a dotted border encircling the central device. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse displays a multi-line Kufic Arabic inscription arranged in horizontal registers within a rectangular border, identifying the mint as 'Amman. The field is plain, with no figural or symbolic devices, conforming to the purely epigraphic style mandated by the Umayyad monetary reform of 696 CE. A dotted outer border frames the inscription, and the flan exhibits the irregular outline and uneven surface typical of hammered copper provincial fulus. |
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Anonymous copper fulus from the Umayyad period present persistent attribution challenges — "Amman" here refers to the mint at Philadelphia/Amman in Jordan, one of several Syrian-Palestinian provincial mints operating under the caliphate's post-reform monetary reorganization following Abd al-Malik's currency reforms of 696–697. That reform eliminated Byzantine and Sasanian prototype designs from the coinage, but the copper fulus were left largely to local mint discretion, producing the considerable type variation collectors encounter today.