Umayyad Saffuriya Fals
$280.00
SKU: Lot93F.
Period: Islamic Umayyad.
Weight: Æ Fals 3.48.
Material: Bronze.
Description
Description
ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate, Saffuriya (Sepphoris) mint.
Umayyad Caliphate, Bronze coinage. Æ Fals Saffuriyia mint.
Undated.
Obverse: la ilaha / illa llah / wahdahu in treble circle
reverse: muhammad / rasul / allah, mint indicated in marginal legend bism allah durib hath al fals bi Saffuriya
Walker notes that Saffuriya was, “the ancient Sepphoris, some three miles north-west of Nazareth.”
Walker p. 266, P.135; SNAT IVa, 280 ; Album 186. Very Rare.
