Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1916. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $735. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. Uncertain period (post-reform). AH 77-132 / AD 697-750. Æ Fals (3.72 g, 8h). Arab-Byzantine type. Uncertain Spanish or North African mint. [DS TUUS DUS ET AUS NON E], crowned facing imperial busts; the left bearded, the right beardless / In nOmE TUO [DS U]S, cross on three steps, horizontal bar on top. SICA 1, 736-737; Walker, Arab-Byzantine 143; Album 118. VF, brown surfaces. Very rare.