370, Lot: 577. Estimate $100. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. AH 65-86 / AD 685-705. Æ Fals (22mm, 3.90 g, 6h). Imperial bust type (Type VII). Hims (Emesa) mint. Struck circa 685-690s. Crowned facing imperial bust, holding globus cruciger; K/AΛ/O/N (= “good”) to left, bi-hims in Arabic and pellet to right / Large m; above, star between s-curves, Є/M/I-C/H/C across, tayyib (= good) in Arabic in exergue. SICA 1, 548; DOCAB 74; Walker, Arab-Byzantine, 57; Album 3524; ICV 133. Near VF, brown surfaces.