413, Lot: 518. Estimate $100. Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. AH 65-86 / AD 685-705. Æ Fals (16mm, 2.83 g, 6h). ‘Standing Caliph’ coinage. Tanukh mint. Struck circa 690s. Caliph standing facing, holding sword / Transformed cross set on three steps;
wāf to left,
bi-tanukh to right. SICA I, 656; DOCAB 129 var. (field inscriptions on rev. switched); Walker p. 41 var. (same); Album 3531. VF, earthen black patina. Rare.
From Album (p. 37): “This mint name probably refers to the tribe, the Banu Tanukh, rather than a physical location. Walker and others previously misread it as Saruj, a city near Harran, but this name would be epigraphically impossible for these coins.”