282, Lot: 429. Estimate $100. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Post-Reform coinage. Anonymous. Circa AD 725-750. Æ Fals (19mm, 2.34 g, 7h). Uncertain mint in Filastin or al-Urdunn. Forepart of horse right. Walker 588; SNAT IVa 537-8; Album 156. VF, dark green desert patina, flan a bit irregular. Very rare.
From the J. S. Wagner Collection.
Thought by some (probably wishfully!) to represent Al-Buraq (“Lightning”), the horse that took Muhammad rode on his nighttime journey from Mecca to Jerusalem and back.