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343, Lot: 672. Estimate $150.
Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan to Marwan II ibn Muhammad. AH 65-132 / AD 685-750. Æ Fals – Pashiz (18mm, 2.63 g, 6h). Treadwell Phase B or D. Zaranj mint. Crowned Sasanian-style bust right; partial illegible Pahlavi legend to left GDH in Pahlavi downward to right; crescents in margin / zaranj in Arabic, nywkyh (goodness) and ’pzwn (increase) in Pahlavi in three lines; circle border with crescents at 3, 6, 9, and 12 o’clock. Cf. Gyselen Type 50 (for type); Zeno 122043; Album 49. VF, brown patina. Very rare.


From the J. P. Righetti Collection. Ex Elsen 74 (21 June 2003), lot 813.