282, Lot: 409. Estimate $100. Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Imperial Image coinage. Anonymous. Circa 680s. Æ Fals (21mm, 3.90 g, 7h). Dimashq (Damascus) mint. Standing imperial figure, holding long cruciform scepter and globus cruciger; to left, palm above T; ΛЄO to right / Large M; staurogram above; below, crescent above bar;
duriba dimashq ja'iz (“struck in Damascus, legal”) to sides and in exergue. SICA I, -; Walker 20 var.; DOCAB -; Album 3517.2. Good VF, earthen dark green patina, traces of uncertain undertype in reverse margin.
From the J. S. Wagner Collection.