WHW 4
- WHW 4
- Arab-Byzantine
- Commercial weight
- Probably Syria
- 636-696 AD
- 1 Uqiya
- Copper alloy
- Molded
- Rectangle.
- 24.33mm
- 22.08 mm
- 27.24g
- Pondera # - (not in accessible data)
- Wadih Hadad Collection (Beirut), purchased from Baldwin’s 16, 15.6, 15.
- 2009-10-21
- Extremely rare weight. After the conquest of Bilad as-Sham, the Arabs imitated the Byzantine coins and then added Arabic inscriptions to them. Only coins with Arabic inscriptions were issued since the monetary reform of the Omayyad king ‘abed el-Malik bin Marwan. This weight is therefore produced between the Arab conquest (636 AD) of Syria and the latter reform (696 AD).
بسم الله (to left, downward)
Emperor’s facing bust wearing cross toped crown, holding globe-crucigère in right hand and holding cruciform scepter with left hand,
all within a linear square.
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