Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1795. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EARLY ISLAMIC. Umayyads. temp. 'Abd al-Malik. 685-705. AR Dirham (2.79 g, 12h). Marw mint. Dated AH 80 (699/700 AD). Kalima in three lines across fields, "bismillah struck was this dirham in Marw in the year eighty" in outer margin; MR" in Pahlavi-\ below Kalima, five annulets around / "Umayyad Symbol" (Quran 112) in four lines across fields, "Second Symbol" (Quran 9.33) in outer margin; five annulets around. Klat 582.b; Walker, Arab-Byzantine p. 179, note 2; Album 126. VF, rare date, unusual bilingual inscription. ($750)