282, Lot: 415. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Imperial Image coinage. Anonymous. Circa 680s. Æ Fals (19mm, 4.35 g, 7h). Baalbek (Heliopolis) mint. Two standing imperial figures, each holding cruciform scepter; cross between heads / Large M; cross above, inverted crescent above bar below, H/Λ/I/(OΥ) to left, H/O/Λ//Є to right,
ba‘labakk in exergue. SICA I, 584 var. (without bar below crescent); Walker,
Arab-Byzantine 35; DOCAB 61; Album 3513.2. Good VF, black desert patina. Attractive for type.
From the J. S. Wagner Collection.