282, Lot: 407. Estimate $150. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Imperial Image coinage. Anonymous. Circa 680s. Æ Fals (21mm, 3.79 g, 6h). Dimashq (Damascus) mint. Seated imperial figure, holding long cruciform scepter and globus cruciger; to left, crescent above T; ΛЄO to right / Large M; monogram above; below, inverted crescent above star;
duriba dimashq ja'iz (“struck in Damascus, legal”) to sides and in exergue. SICA I, -; Walker -; DOCAB -; Album 3511.2. Good VF, black patina with orange earthen deposits. A rare and attractive specimen.
From the J. S. Wagner Collection.