248, Lot: 496. Estimate $200. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. Uncertain period (pre-reform). AH 41-77 / AD 661-697. Æ Fals (28mm, 6.75 g, 7h). Arab-Byzantine type, imitating Justin II. Scythopolis (Beit She'an) mint. Justin II and Sophia, each holding cruciform scepter, enthroned facing; cross above / Large M; cross above, A/И/И/O GII across field; A//KYZ. Amitai-Preiss, Berman, and Qedar, “The Coinage of Scythopolis-Baysan and Gerasa-Jerash”, INJ 13, D8 var. (“date”); SICA 1, -; Album 98. VF, earthen dark green patina.