Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1809. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EARLY ISLAMIC, Umayyads. temp. Hisham. 724-743 AD. AR Dirham (2.84, 9h). Marw mint. Dated AH 110 (728/9 AD). Kalima in three lines across fields, "bismillah struck was this dirham in Marw in the year ten and one hundred" in outer margin; triple pellets at cardinal points / "Umayyad Symbol" (Quran 112) in four lines across fields, "Second Symbol" (Quran 9.33) in outer margin; five annulets around. Klat 600; Walker, Arab-Sasanian B.22; Album 137; MWI 58. EF, minor flat spot on reverse. ($500)