344, Lot: 551. Estimate $100. Sold for $85. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Time of the Rashidun. Pseudo-Byzantine types. Circa AH 37-55 / AD 658-675. Æ Fals (23mm, 3.19 g, 4h). Pseudo-Byzantine Type E. ‘al-wafa’ lillah’ mint. Struck circa 658-664. Imperial Byzantine figure (Constans II) standing facing, holding cross-tipped staff and globus cruciger / Large m; cross above; [al-wafa’ in exegue]; l’llah to right. Cf. SICA 1, 595-604 (for type); cf. DOCAB 32 (same); cf. Walker, Arab-Byzantine, p. 51, (same); Album 3523 note. Fine, earthen black-green patina.