UMAYYAD: 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, AE fals, Standing caliph type, issued c. 690s. Qinnasrin (Chalcis), 2.90g, 20mm.
Obv: Caliph standing facing, holding on sheathed sword
Rev: Transformed cross.
Album 3529, G.42, EBCC 37.6

As a gateway to the desert, Chalcis/Qinnasrin was one of the earliest strategically important cities to fall to the Arab conquest, taken by the famous general Khalid ibn al-Walid in 637-38.