CNG 100, Lot: 501. Estimate $7500. Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Suleiman ibn 'Abd al-Malik. AH 96-99 / AD 715-717. AV Solidus – Dinar (14mm, 4.10 g, 5h). Spanish mint. Dated AH 98 (AD 716/7). FERITOS SOLI IN SPAN AN XC (S’s retrograde) around star of eight points / “This dinar is coined in Al-Andalus in the year eight and ninety” around second half of the shahada (“Muhammad is the messenger of Allah”). Balaguer 43 = Walker, Arab-Byzantine Cod.10 var. (slightly different Latin legend on obv.); Gomez, Hispano 7; AGC I 35Aa; Album 124M. Near EF. Very rare Spanish bilingual issue.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex “Caballero de las Yndias” Collection (Part III, Aureo & Calicó, 21 October 2009), lot 1400.

None of the examples cited by Balaguer carry a full and correct date in Latin (i.e., AN XCVIII).