Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1806. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EARLY ISLAMIC. Umayyads. temp. Hisham. 724-743 AD. AR Dirham (2.90 g, 1h). al-Bab mint. Dated AH 120 (737/8 AD). Kalima in three lines across fields, "bismillah struck was this dirham in al-Bab in the year twenty and one hundred" in outer margin; four annulets around / "Umayyad Symbol" (Quran 112) in four lines across fields, "Second Symbol" (Quran 9.33) in outer margin; five annulets around. Klat 147; Walker, Arab-Byzantine 297; Album 137. EF. ($500)