214, Lot: 514. Estimate $75. Sold for $155. 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, 4.90 g, 1h). Arab-Byzantine type, imitating Constans II. Dimishḳ (Damascus) mint. Byzantine-style emperor standing facing, holding long cross and globus cruciger; to left, star above T-style standard; Λ-ЄO to right / Large M; Kufic legends to left, right, and in exergue; monogram above, barred and inverted crecscent below. SICA I 572 var. (bird in place of star); cf. Walker, Arab-Byzantine 12-13; Album 102. VF, brown patina.

From the D. Alighieri Collection.