344, Lot: 549. Estimate $100. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Time of the Rashidun. Pseudo-Byzantine types. Circa AH 37-55 / AD 658-675. Æ Fals (19mm, 2.08 g, 7h). Pseudo-Byzantine Type E. Uncertain pseudo-Damascus mint. Struck circa 658-660 or later. Imperial Byzantine figure (Constans II) standing facing, holding cross-tipped staff and globus cruciger / Large M; cross above, A below; A/H/И/[O] to left, G/II to right; ИIK in exergue. Cf. SICA 1, 581 = Walker, Arab-Byzantine, p. 45, Ox. 1 (for type) and 6 (Baalbek; for obv.); cf. DOCAB p. 44 (Diosopolis; for rev.) and 46 (Damascus; for obv.); Album 3522.2. VF, earthen black-green patina.