Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1789. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EARLY ISLAMIC, Arab-Byzantine. In the style of Heraclius, with Heraclius Constantine. After 641 AD. Æ 23mm (1.60 g, 6h). Uncertain mint. Pseudo-legend, facing busts of Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine, both wearing chlamys and elaborate crown with cross; cross in field above / IIWH, [C]NB (N retrograde), cross potent on three steps; large annulet in right field. Cf. Curiel-Gyselen, Monnaies 3-5; cf. Gyselen Type 85; SICA -; Walker, Arab-Sasanian -; MWI -: Album -. VF, black and brown patina. Overstruck on an Æ Arab-Sasanian Khosrau II type with imitative bismillah in margin (cf. Gyselen Type 12) ($400)