96, Lot: 214. Estimate $100. Sold for $333. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY. Normans. Robert Guiscard, as Count of Calabria and Sicily, and Duke of Apulia. 1059-1085 AD. AV Quarter Dinar [Tari] (18mm, 0.95 gm). Palermo mint. Struck 466 AH (1072 AD). Kalima and Quran 9:33 / Kufic legend: "By order of Robert the duke, the very glorious lord of Sicily," in four lines across field; "Bismillah struck was this dinar in [Siqilliyyah in the year six and] sixty and four hundred" around. Spahr 1; MEC 66. VF