Weight Overstruck on Arab-Byzantine Fals

CNG 106, Lot: 877. Estimate $1000. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

temp. Justinian II. First reign, 685-695. Æ Weight or Token (22mm, 3.65 g, 6h). Heraclius, magistrate. Facing bust of Theotokos with head of Child on breast / Cruciform EPACΛI(OY) (= of Heraclius) monogram. Cf. D. Feissel, “Le préfet de Constantinople, les poids-étalons et l’estampillage de l’argenterie au VIe et au VIIe siècle,” RN 28 (1986), monogram 42 (for rev.). VF, orangish earthen green patina. Overstruck on an Arab-Byzantine Imperial bust type (Type VII) Hims (Emesa) mint fals (struck circa 685-690s). Apparently unique and of historical interest.