263, Lot: 439. Estimate $150. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. AD 635/8-696/7. Æ Fals (29mm, 5.40 g, 5h). Scythopolis (Beit She'an) mint. Justin II, holding globus cruciger, and Sophia, holding cruciform scepter, enthroned facing; star above / Large M; cross above, A/N/N/O to left, Ч/II to right, A below, NIKO in exergue. Amitai-Preiss, Berman, and Qedar, “The Coinage of Scythopolis-Baysan and Gerasa-Jerash”,
INJ 13, A1; SICA I -; Album 98. VF, thick desert patina with numerous cleaning scratches.