345, Lot: 582. Estimate $150. Sold for $1200. 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, 3.85 g, 1h). Pseudo-Byzantine Type G Variety. Uncertain mint. Pair of crowned and bearded Byzantine-style busts facing, left figure holding cross; pellet between; cross above / Large M, cross above; below, Γ above pellet; A/N and N/N across field. Unpublished in the standard references. VF, black-green patina, traces of earthen deposits in devices.