240, Lot: 514. Estimate $150. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. Uncertain period (pre-reform). AH 41-77 / AD 661-697. Æ Fals (29mm, 9.81 g, 5h). Gerasa (Jerash) mint. Justin and Sophia, each holding cruciform scepter, seated facing; cross above, star between; Arabic tayyib countermark / Large M; cross above, date across field; Γ//NIKO (retrograde). Walker 1; Album 98; Amitai-Preiss, Berman, and Qedar, “The Coinage of Scythopolis-Baysan and Gerasa-Jerash,” INJ 13, C7a. VF, dark gray-green patina under earthen deposits.