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343, Lot: 664. Estimate $100.
Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Time of Muhammad & the Rashidun. Pseudo-Byzantine types. Circa AH 1-55 / AD 622-675. Æ Fals (24mm, 4.06 g, 2h). Pseudo-Byzantine Type E. Uncertain Syrian mint. Struck circa 647-658. Imperial Byzantine figure (Constans II) standing facing, holding cross-tipped staff and globus cruciger; illegible blundered legend / Large m, star above; [A]/N/A and N/Є/[O] across field; CIC[AI] in exergue; c/m: uncertain (jayyid [?] or khaled [?] in Arabic, or sp [?] in Pahlavi with star below) in circular incuse. For coin: cf. SICA I, 515 (for type); cf. DOCAB 10 (same); Walker, Arab-Byzantine –; Album 3504; for c/m: cf. Goodwin, Seventh, B3. Host Coin Fine, countermark VF, black patina with traces of olive overtones.