334, Lot: 489. Estimate $75. Sold for $50. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLAMIC, Pseudo-Byzantine coinage. Circa AD 647-670. Æ Fals (21mm, 5.61 g, 2h). Imitating Constans II. Imperial figure standing facing, holding long cross and globus cruciger; degraded legend around / Large m; degraded legend around; c/m:
tayyib (= “good”) within circular incuse. PSS Class IVa; Album 3504; for c/m: Goodwin B7. Near VF, green patina.
From the J. P. Righetti Collection, 148. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 151 (1 November 2006), lot 331 (part of).