375, Lot: 769. Estimate $100. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Mu'awiya I ibn Abi Sufyan. AH 41-60 / AD 661-680. Æ Fals (20mm, 3.41 g, 6h). Imperial standing figure type (Type VI). Pseudo-Damascus mint. Struck circa 660s-680. Standing imperial figure, holding long cross and globus cruciger; O to upper right / Large m surmounted by trefoil ornament; pellet in each void; A/И to left; (elongated retrograde C)O/C to right; in exergue, wavy line with pellet in each void. Cf. SICA 1, 521 and 605 (for type); DOCAB 58; Walker, Arab-Byzantine, p. 50, ASK.2; Album 3522.1; ICV 126. VF, brown patina.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind.