254, Lot: 395. Estimate $200. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. Uncertain period (pre-reform). AH 41-77 / AD 661-697. Æ Fals (28mm, 11.11 g, 12h). Arab-Byzantine type, imitating Justin II. Scythopolis mint. Justin II, holding globus cruciger, and Sophia, holding cruciform scepter, enthroned facing; star above / Large M; cross above, “date” across field, A(resembling diamond)//NIKO. Amitai-Preiss, Berman, and Qedar, “The Coinage of Scythopolis-Baysan and Gerasa-Jerash”, INJ 13, A1; SICA I -; Album 98. VF, earthen dark green patina.