Fals - Anonymous Tabariya

Tabariya — the Roman Tiberias — was one of several Palestinian mint cities that continued producing copper coinage after the Arab conquest largely because the new administration needed small change and had no immediate reason to disrupt local exchange. These anonymous Umayyad fals were not issued from Damascus but from regional mints operating with considerable autonomy, which accounts for the variation in fabric and module that collectors encounter across the type. The BMC Walker reference places this squarely in the transitional period following Abd al-Malik's currency reforms of 696, when gold and silver were Arabicized but copper remained a patchwork of local production for decades after.