288, Lot: 646. Estimate $100. Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Arab-Byzantine coinage. Circa 685-692. Æ Fals (20mm, 3.44 g, 6h). Hims (Emesa) mint. Crowned facing bust, holding globus cruciger; K/AΛ/O/N (= “good”) to left, bi-hims followed by pellet-in-annulet to right / Large m; star between pellets-in-annulets above, Є/M/I-C/H/C across; in exergue, tayyib (= “good”) above two pellets flanking an ornament of two annulets joined by bar. SICA 1, -; DOCAB -; Bone 2.3b; Album 3524. VF, brown patina. Scarce variety with ornament on reverse.

From the J. P. Righetti Collection, 157.