ISLAMIC, 'Abbasid Caliphate. temp. Al-Mansur, AH 136-158 / AD 754-775. Fals (Bronze, 22 mm, 4.43 g, 7 h), Qinnasrin, AH 157 = 773/4. Within a dotted circle, citing the mint official Ahmad, ‘lā ilāha illā / Allāh waḥdahū / lā sharīka lahū / ʿalā yaday Aḥmad’ (‘There is no deity but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him. Under the hands of Ahmad’ in Arabic); in the margin, ‘bism Allāh ḍuriba hādhā al-fals bi Qinnasrīn sana sabʿ wa khamsīn wa miʾa’ (‘In the name of Allah. This fals was struck in Qinnasrin in the year 157’ in Arabic). Rev. Within a chain circle, ‘Muḥammad / rasūl / Allāh / bakh bakh’ (‘Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. Good good’ in Arabic); in the margin, citing governor Musa, ‘mimmā amara bihī al-amīr Mūsā mawlā amīr al-muʾminīn aʿazza Allāh naṣrahū’ (‘From that ordered by amir Musa, vassal of the Commander of the Believers. May Allah reinforce his victory’ in Arabic). Album 290. Areas of weakness and with some earthen deposits, otherwise, very fine.

From a European collection, formed before 2005.