Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1800. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EARLY ISLAMIC. Umayyads. temp. al-Walid I. 705-715. AR Dirham (2.50 g, 3h). Qumis mint. Dated AH 92 (710/11 AD). Kalima in three lines across fields, "bismillah struck was this dirham in Qumis in the year two and ninety" 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 519; Walker, Arab-Byzantine 453; Album 128. Good VF, some encrustation. the first line of the Kalima deliberately defaced. ($500)