Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 1352. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $270. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. Uncertain period (pre-reform). AH 41-77 / AD 661-697. Æ Fals (3.79 g, 9h). Type VI. Dimashq (Damascus) mint. Byzantine emperor standing facing, holding long, cross-tipped scepter and globus cruciger; to left, palm above letter T; to right, Λ/E/O / Large M; monogram above; “officina” below; Arabic mint formula around. Cf. SICA I 572; cf. Walker, Arab-Byzantine 20; Album 102. VF, black-green patina with dusty overtones.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.