202, Lot: 531. Estimate $100. Sold for $135. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. Uncertain period (pre-reform). AH 41-77 / AD 661-697. Æ Fals (17mm, 4.26 g, 6h). 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, black patina under thick earthen deposits.