381, Lot: 508. Estimate $100. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Time of the Rashidun. Pseudo-Byzantine types. Circa AH 1-55 / AD 632-675. Æ Fals (20mm, 3.37 g, 7h). Pseudo-Byzantine type. Uncertain mint. Struck circa 638-670. crowned facing bearded bust, holding trace of globus cruciger / Large M; star above, A below; A/N to left, monogram to right; OVΛK in exergue. Cf. Pottier, Schulze & Schulze Class III and Fig. 5 and 6 (for type); SICA I –; Walker, Arab-Byzantine –; DOCAB –; cf. Album 3507 (same); ICV –. VF, dark brown patina. Overstruck on a follis Constantine I. Rare and unusual.