361, Lot: 402. Estimate $300. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Sicilia (Regno). Ruggero I. Conte, 1071-1101. AV Tari (12mm, 1.27 g, 6h). Palermo mint. Dated AH 4[6...] (AD 1071–4). Kalima; Quran 9.33 in margin / “By order of the count/brother of duke Roberto/Roggero” in Kufic; mint and date formula in margin. Travaini, Monetazione 63 = Lowick 346; Spahr –; MEC 14, –; Friedberg –. VF, toned. Very rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Stephen Album, April 1984.