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Arab-Imitative Byzantine
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Arab Imitative of Heraclius, AE Follis, Year 20 (629/630)
(No Legend)
Heraclius standing facing at left, with long beard and moustache, wearing crown and military dress, long cross in right hand,
Heraclius Constantine standing facing at right, with short beard, wearing crown and chlamys, globus cruciger in right hand,
cross between their heads
Large M, blundered legend to left, C surmounted by cross above, X / X to right, corrupt A below
Exergual line with slashes
27mm x 33mm, 11.12g
SB 810 for type
Note: Overstruck on follis of Anastasius of Constantinople, with partial legends and bust showing on obverse and the top of CON
on reverse
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Arab Pseudo-Byzantine, AE Follis imitating Constans II, c.650s-680s
+EIST NIK
Figure, beardless, standing facing, wearing crown and chlamys, holding long cross and globus cruciger
Large cursive m, A/N/N/O to left, cross above, L/F to right
CION in exergue
21mm, 2.99g
Goodwin Type E; SICA I, 508-525
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Arab Pseudo-Byzantine, AE Follis imitating Constans II, c.650s-680s
T L-C-Q-K (C retrograde)
Figure, beardless, standing facing, wearing crown and chlamys, long cross in right hand, globus cruciger in left
Large m, C/N/N to left, O/A/X to right
P K (retrograde) in exergue
19mm x 23mm, 2.42g
Goodwin Type E; SICA I, 508-525
Note from Dave Tranbarger: Very close to SICA I, 519, one of a group excavated at Lachish (Tell el Duweir) and published by Metcalf in 1964
including very similar lettering and the reuse of a quartered flan of an earlier follis, which is characteristic of Southern
Syria & Palestine at that time.
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Arab-Byzantine, Bilingual AE Fals, 680s-690s, Hims/Emesa
KA/L/ON | "bi-Hims" (in Arabic) / * across fields
Bust, beardless, facing, wearing crown and chlamys, globus cruciger in right hand
Large m, E/M/I to left, * flanked by two birds eyes above, C/H/C to right
Exergue line with "tayyib" (in Arabic, meaning "good")
20mm, 4.36g
Album 110; SICA I, 542
Ex Spink and Son, Ltd.
Many thanks to Dave Tranbarger for the expanded attribution on this piece
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