Fals - Ismail bin Ali Abbasid Governors

Ismail ibn Ali was a cousin of the first Abbasid caliph, al-Saffah, and served as governor of a key eastern province during the dynasty's foundational decade — the years immediately following the Abbasid revolution of 750, which ended nearly a century of Umayyad rule. Copper fals of this period were locally administered issues, with governors exercising considerable autonomy over provincial copper coinage while gold and silver remained more tightly controlled from the center.

Album 338 covers a transitional moment before Abbasid monetary administration had fully consolidated its regional structures.