192, Lot: 344. Estimate $75. Sold for $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. Uncertain period (pre-reform). AH 41-77 / AD 661-697. Æ Fals (29mm, 10.41 g). Pseudo-Byzantine type imitating Justin II. Uncertain mint. Two imperial figures enthroned; left figure holding globus cruciger, right figure holding cruciform scepter / Large M; cross above; A/N/N/O X across fields; A//KYZ. SICA I -; Walker,
Arab-Sassanian -; cf. Album 98; cf. N. Amitai-Preiss, A. Berman, and S. Qedar, “The Coinage of Scythopolis-Baysan and Gerasa-Jerash”,
Israel Numismatic Journal 13, pp. 133-151, D8. Fair, green patina, surfaces a little rough.