288, Lot: 631. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Arab-Byzantine coinage. Circa 650s-660s. Æ Fals (23mm, 5.01 g, 1h). Imperial figure standing facing, holding long cross and globus cruciger / Large m; cross above. Pottier et al., Pseudo-Byzantine Class IVb; Goodwin Type E; Album 3504. VF, green and red patina.

From the J. P. Righetti Collection, 139.

Overstruck on a Pseudo-Byzantine “three standing imperial figures” type imitating Cyprus. The heads of the three figures are visible at the top of the “m” on the reverse. A portion of the blundered mint-mark (“VKΠ”) is visible at the top of the obverse.