The Earliest Umayyad Post-Reform Coin Type from Baysan

Abstract

This paper discusses a group of Umayyad fulūs of peculiar style that are often overstruck on Arab-Byzantine folles and half folles from Skythopolis-Baysan (modern Bet-She’an). One specimen was found in Jerash, yet an attribution to the mint of Baysan is more likely. Some comments are offered on the earliest post-reform fulūs and the methods by which to attribute them to specific mints.