Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1808. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EARLY ISLAMIC. Umayyads. temp. Hisham. 724-743 AD. AR Dirham (2.93 gm, 7h). Ifriqiya mint. Dated AH 114 (732/3 AD). Kalima in three lines across fields, "bismillah struck was this dirham in Ifriqiya in the year fourteen and one hundred" in outer margin / "Umayyad Symbol" (Quran 112) in four lines across fields, "Second Symbol" (Quran 9.33) in outer margin; five annulets around. Klat 101; Walker, Arab-Byzantine 286; Album 137. Good VF. ($500)