The division of thekalima across obverse and reverse is characteristic of early Umayyad epigraphic reform issues. This bronze fals was struck during the early Umayyad Caliphate, in a period when Islamic coinage was being systematically redefined to reflect the ideological and administrative foundations of the new Islamic state.

‘Abbasid Caliphate. Al-Ma’mun. AH 199-218 / AD 813-833. Æ Fals (19.2mm, 2.23 g, 6h). Ra’s al-‘Ayn mint. Dated AH 213 (AD 828/9). Shamma p. 153, 9; Album 312.