222, Lot: 497. Estimate $100. Sold for $90. 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 Follis (27mm, 6.24 g, 6h). Arab-Byzantine type, imitating Justin II. Scythopolis (Beit She'an) mint. Justin and Sophia, each holding cruciform scepter, seated facing; cross above / Large M; cross above, date across fields; A//NIKO. Walker,
Arab-Byzantine 1; Album 98; Amitai-Preiss, Berman, and Qedar, “The Coinage of Scythopolis-Baysan and Gerasa-Jerash”,
INJ 13, A4. VF, green patina under earthen deposits.