Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1802. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EARLY ISLAMIC. Umayyads. temp. al-Walid I. 705-715. AR Dirham (2.90 g, 12h). Sijistan mint. Dated AH 90 (708/9 AD). Kalima in three lines across fields, "bismillah struck was this dirham in Sijistan in the year 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 432.b; Walker, Arab-Byzantine p. 159, P.85; Album 128. Good VF. ($400)