Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1801. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EARLY ISLAMIC. Umayyads. temp. al-Walid I. 705-715. AR Dirham (2.56 g, 11h). Sarakhs mint. Dated AH 93 (711/12 AD). Kalima in three lines across fields,"bismillah struck was this dirham in Sarakhs in the year three 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 453.b; Walker, Arab-Byzantine p. 162, note 1; Album 128. VF. Rare mint, only in operation for ten years. ($500)