Umayyad Caliphate, Bronze coinage. Æ Fals (19.2mm, 3.65 g, 12h). Tanukh mint. Undated. SICA 2, 1141; Album 189. VF. Rare.
Ex Stephen Album Auction 31 (17 May 2018), lot 274.
‘Tanukh’ is in fact the name of a tribe rather than a place. Based near Aleppo and Qinnasrin, the Tanukh had been allies of the Byzantines before the Muslim conquest of the Levant. They largely retained their Christian faith under the Umayyads, eventually being forcibly converted under the ‘Abbasid caliph al-Mahdi (AH 158-169).
