261, Lot: 351. Estimate $100. Sold for $360. 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 (29mm, 11.58 g, 10h). Gerasa (Jerash) mint. Justin II and Sophia, each holding cruciform scepter, enthroned facing; star above; c/m:
tayyib (good) in incuse in exergue / Large M; cross above, A/N/N/O to left, */X/II to right, retrograde Γ below, NIKO in exergue. Amitai-Preiss, Berman, and Qedar, “The Coinage of Scythopolis-Baysan and Gerasa-Jerash”,
INJ 13, C2a; Album 98. Near VF, rough green patina.