361, Lot: 403. Estimate $300. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Sicilia (Regno). Ruggero I. Conte, 1071-1101. AV Tari (13mm, 0.99 g, 11h). Palermo mint. Dated AH 46[...] (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 65 = Lowick 348; Spahr –; MEC 14, –; Friedberg –. Good VF, minor deposits. Very rare.

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