Fals - Anonymous Syrian type

The anonymous Syrian fals occupies an awkward transitional moment in Islamic monetary history. The 696 currency reform under Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan abolished Byzantine and Sasanian-derived imagery and imposed fully epigraphic coinage — but that mandate applied most strictly to gold and silver. Copper remained loosely regulated for decades, and provincial mints across Syria struck flans of wildly inconsistent weight and module under no central authority worth naming.

Album 158 encompasses a broad attribution that masks genuine die variety across multiple Syrian mint sites, most unidentified.