440, Lot: 557. Estimate $200. Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. al-Walid I ibn 'Abd al-Malik. AH 86-96 / AD 705-715. PB Commercial Seal (30mm, 14.92 g). Wasit mint. Dated AH 94 (AD 712/3).
zuriba bi-wasīt/fī sanat arba’/wa tis’īn (
struck at Wasit/in the year four and ninety (after the Hijra) in Kufic in three lines / Blank, but for cloth impression. Good VF, earthen gray-brown patina. An interesting commercial seal.