★ Extremely rare ★

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. Temp. Hisham ibn 'Abd al-Malik, AH 105-125 / AD 724-743. Fals (Bronze, 20 mm, 2.13 g, 12 h), al-Mubaraka (= Balkh), AH 119 = 737. ‘lā ilāha illā / Allāh waḥdahū lā / sharīka lahū’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him’ in Arabic). Rev. ‘Muḥammad / rasūl / Allāh’ (‘Muhammad is the messenger of Allah’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-fals bi al-Mubāraka sana tisʿa ʿashara wa miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This fals was struck in al-Mubaraka in the year 119’ in Arabic). Album C204.2. Extremely rare. Somewhat rough, otherwise, very fine.

From a North American collection.