191, Lot: 318. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. Uncertain period (pre-reform). AH 41-77 / AD 661-697. Æ Fals (20mm, 4.38 g, 11h). Pseudo-Byzantine type. Dimashq (Damascus) mint. Imperial figure enthroned facing, holding cruciform scepter and globus cruciger; to left, bird standing on T / Large M; cross above, EI below; [DA]M in exergue. Goodwin 19 var. (monogram in place of cross on rev.); Walker, Arab-Byzantine 4; Album 100. VF, black patina, earthen deposits. Rare.

From the J. S. Wagner Collection.