Posted 12/19/2019 7:32 pm
This coin type was imitated by the Arabs, but they are not common. They also usually have "something wrong" with the design, which gives them away as being Arab copies. This one on zeno.ru, for example, has the reverse mirror-imaged and the obverse legend is even more garbled than usual for the period.
Without some further evidence, I would assume it to be a normal Byzantine coin, rather than an Arab imitation.
Without some further evidence, I would assume it to be a normal Byzantine coin, rather than an Arab imitation.
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