Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1915. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $325. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. Uncertain period (pre-reform). AH 41-77 / AD 661-697. Æ Fals (1.92 g, 6h). Crude Sasanian style bust right; “barak”? in Arabic to right; uncertain legend in outer margin / “Muhammad rasul Allah” in three lines across field. Cf. Gyselen Types 14/44 (obv./rev.) ; Album -. VF, brown patina.