★ An unusually attractive example ★

Arab-Byzantine. Halab (Aleppo). Time of Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan AH 65-86.
Fals AE

21 mm, 4,04 g

Caliph standing facing, bearded, placing his right hand on the pommel of his sword and whip hanging from his right elbow; around, 'J li' abd Allah' abd al-Malik amir al-Mu'minin' / Transformed cross standing on three steps; in field to left, mint bi-halab, in field to right, wāf ('full weight' in Kufic); around, part of the first Kalima reading 'la ilaha illa Allah wahdahu Muhammad Rasul Allah.

good very fine

DOCAB -; Goodwin, Standing Caliph Coinage, Type IV; SICA I, 619.

From the Tareq Hani collection.