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CNG 94, Lot: 1588. Estimate $200.
Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Mu'awiya I ibn Abi Sufyan – 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. AH 41-86 / AD 661-705. Æ Half Fals (19mm, 4.39 g, 4h). Baysan (Scythopolis) mint. Struck circa AD 670-690s. Imperial couple seated facing, both holding scepters / Large K; crescent above, “baysan” in Arabic to left, – to right, x below. Amitai-Preiss, Berman, and Qedar, “The Coinage of Scythopolis-Baysan and Gerasa-Jerash,” INJ 13, B3; SICA I –; DOCAB 85; Album 3510. VF, dark green earthen patina.