288, Lot: 647. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Arab-Byzantine coinage. Circa 685-692. Æ Fals (19mm, 3.96 g, 6h). Hims (Emesa) mint. Crowned facing bust, holding globus cruciger; K/AΛ/O/N (= “good”) to left; to right, bi-hims preceded by wavy line and followed by star / Large m; star between pellets-in-annulets above, Є/M/I-C/H/C across; in exergue, tayyib (= “good”) above wavy line. SICA 1, 539 var.; DOCAB 67ff var.; Bone 2.2 var.; Album 3524. VF, dark green patina. Wavy line on reverse not recorded for any of Bone’s numerous varieties.

From the J. P. Righetti Collection, 158.