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Fals - temp. Sulayman b. Abd Allah Revolutionary period - Abbasid Revolution
| Issuer | Umayyad Governorate of Sijistan |
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| Year | 755-756 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears a multi-line Arabic religious inscription in Kufic script, arranged in horizontal registers within a roughly circular flan. The legends include the shahada or related devotional formulae characteristic of transitional Umayyad-Abbasid coinage. The surface shows typical hammered relief with irregular flan edges and pronounced patination consistent with copper issues of the period. No figural imagery is present, reflecting the aniconic tradition of early Islamic coinage. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents multiple lines of Kufic Arabic inscription arranged in parallel horizontal registers filling the central field, a layout typical of early Abbasid-period copper fals from the eastern provinces. The legends likely include the mint name Sijistan and the regnal or administrative reference to Sulayman b. Abd Allah. The hammered flan is irregular in outline with a dark copper patina and areas of corrosion, characteristic of provincial copper coinage struck during the transitional revolutionary period of AH 138-140. |
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| Mint | Sijistan |
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