CNG 100, Lot: 497. Estimate $5000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. al-Walid I ibn 'Abd al-Malik or Suleiman ibn 'Abd al-Malik. AH 86-99 / AD 705-717. AV Semissis – Half Dinar (10mm, 2.03 g, 6h). Arab-Byzantine type. North African mint. Struck circa AH 95-98 (AD 713-717). [...]S σS NISVNS CV (NN) [...] around SIMIΛIS (all S’s except first in central legend retrograde) (blundered form of non est Deus nisi unus cui non est alius similis) / (NN) ЄS σS NISV σSCVI N S A (all S’s retrograde) (blundered form of non est Deus nisi unus Deus cui non Socius Alius), transformed cross on three steps. AGC I 21; Walker, Arab-Byzantine, 168 (same obv. die); Album 120.1. EF. Rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex “Caballero de las Yndias” Collection (Part III, Aureo & Calicó, 21 October 2009), lot 1397.