333, Lot: 433. Estimate $75. Sold for $50. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. Circa AD 696/7-750. Æ Fals (16mm, 2.91 g, 7h). Iliya (Jerusalem) mint. Five-branched candelabra with horizontal bar on top and vertical stem at mid-height; “There is no god but Allah alone” around / “Muhammad is Allah’s messenger” in three lines; crescent below. D. Barag, “The Islamic Candlestick Coins of Jerusalem,”
INJ 10, Type 4; Walker 605; Album 163. Fine, earthen black patina.