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Fals - Anonymous Isbahan
| Issuer | Umayyad Caliphate |
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| Year | 696-750 |
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| Weight | 2.05 g |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mint | Isbahan (Isfahan) |
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Anonymous copper fulus from Isbahan (modern Isfahan) occupy an awkward documentary gap in Umayyad monetary history. The great silver and gold reforms of Abd al-Malik in 696 AD standardized the caliphate's prestige coinage, but copper remained largely unregulated — struck by local authorities with no centralized weight standard, which explains the wide mass variation seen across surviving specimens of this type.
Isfahan itself was a former Sasanian administrative center, and early Umayyad copper at this mint often shows transitional borrowings from pre-Islamic provincial coinage practices.