Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1796. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $375. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EARLY ISLAMIC, Umayyads. temp. 'Abd al-Malik. 685-705 AD. AR Dirham (2.86 g, 7h). Shaq al-Taimara mint. Dated AH 80 (699/700 AD). Kalima in three lines across fields, "bismillah struck was this dirham in Shaq al-Taimara in the year eighty" in outer margin; five annulets around / "Umayyad Symbol" (Quran 112) in four lines across fields, "Second Symbol" (Quran 9.33) in outer margin; five annulets around. Klat 202; Walker, Arab-Sasanian 447; Album 125; MWI 58. Good VF, minor encrustation. ($500)