198, Lot: 338. Estimate $100. Sold for $110. 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 (19mm, 4.02 g, 9h). Pseudo-Byzantine type. Baalbek (Heliopolis) mint. Two standing imperial figures holding cruciform scepters; cross between heads / Large M; cross above, Greek mint name (“Heliopolis”) flanking, Arabic mint name (“Ba‘albakk”) in exergue. SICA I 584; Album 105. VF, earthen deposits.