Follis / Fals - two standing figures type Arab-Byzantine

Produced in the transitional decades after the Islamic conquests of Byzantine Syria and Palestine, these copper pieces were struck by Arab administrators who had seized Byzantine mints but lacked — or chose not to implement — an immediate replacement coinage. The standing figures design was lifted directly from late Byzantine prototypes, a pragmatic decision that kept commerce moving in territories where the population still trusted familiar iconography. Abd al-Malik's monetary reforms of 696–698 AD eventually swept away all figural imagery from Islamic coinage, making this entire class of transitional types a brief, bounded episode in mint history.