Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1810. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EARLY ISLAMIC. Umayyads. temp. Marwan II. 744-750. AR Dirham (2.84 g, 9h). Jayy mint. Dated AH 129 (746/7 AD). Kalima in three lines across fields, "bismillah struck was this dirham in Jayy in the year nine and twenty and one hundred" in outer margin / "Umayyad Symbol" (Quran 112) in four lines across fields, "Second Symbol" (Quran 9.33) in outer margin. Klat 270.a; Walker, Arab-Byzantine -; Album 142. Good VF. ($500)