262, Lot: 415. Estimate $200. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Mu'awiya I ibn Abi Sufyan. AH 41-60 / AD 661-680. Æ Fals (31mm, 11.73 g, 6h). 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//NIKO. Amitai-Preiss, Berman, and Qedar, “The Coinage of Scythopolis-Baysan and Gerasa-Jerash,”
INJ 13, A1; SICA I -; Album 98. VF, earthen deposits.