328, Lot: 690. Estimate $100. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan or al-Walid I. AH 65-96 / AD 685-715. Æ Fals (12mm, 1.47 g, 5h). Uncertain North African mint. Struck circa AH 80-89 (AD 699-708). Beginning of Kalima in three lines / Continuation of Kalima around helmeted head right. Walker p. 222, Th. 12; Album C122. Near VF, green patina with earthen deposits.

Althhough this type is sometimes attributed to Spain, Album (p. 39) notes that some specimens bear the mint name Tanja (Tangiers) at the end of the Arabic legend.