Arab-Byzantine
Important Early Arabic Gold

CNG 100, Lot: 494. Estimate $5000. Sold for $9500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. AH 65-86 / AD 685-705. AV Solidus – Dinar (13mm, 4.31 g, 6h). North African mint. Dated IY 2 (AH 84/5 – AD 703/4). σS ЄTЄRNS σS MAGNS σS around OMNI C (final C retrograde) (blundered form of Deus eternus Deus magnus Deus omnium creator?) / IN N σMI MSRC SC FЄR CN AF around RC INσ II (blundered form of in nomine domini misericordis solidus feritus in Africa, indictione II). AGC I 13; cf. Walker C.11; Album 119.1. EF. Very rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Sotheby’s, 5 December 1990), lot 496.