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Pre-reform issues, Arab-Byzantine. Early Pseudo-Byzantine coinage AE Fals. Struck circa AD 658-664. Uncertain Syrian mint. Type E.
Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Imperial Byzantine figure (Constans II) standing facing, holding cross-tipped staff and globus cruciger; [ЄN TOYT O NI]KA around / Large m, cross above; [A N A and N Є O?] across field; inscription in exergue. Cf. SICA I, 510-5 (for type). 3.87gr, 23mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine. Overstruck on a Roman Imperial issue.
Acquired on UK art market. Property of a Middlesex gentleman. -
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Umayyad Caliphate AE Follis. AH 41-77 (AD 661-697). Skythopolis mint. Imitating Justin II and Sophia type in Nikomedia. Arab-Byzantine type.
Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
CΚΥΘΟ-ΠΟΛHC, Justin II and Sophia seated facing, each holding cruciform sceptre; cross between / Large M, cross above, ANNO Ч II (date 'year 7') flanking, A below, NIK O in exergue. ABQ-A1; Album 3509.1. 10.83gr, 30mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Umayyad Caliphate AE Follis. AH 41-77 (AD 661-697). Skythopolis mint. Imitating Justin II and Sophia type in Nikomedia. Arab-Byzantine type.
Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
CΚΥΘΟ-ΠΟΛHC, Justin II and Sophia seated facing, each holding cruciform sceptre; cross between / Large M, cross above, ANNO Ч II (date 'year 7') flanking, A below, NIK O (retrograde) in exergue. ABQ-A1; Album 3509.1. 7.81gr, 28mm, 7h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
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Umayyad Caliphate AE Follis. AH 41-77 (AD 661-697). Skythopolis mint. Imitating Justin II and Sophia type in Nikomedia. Arab-Byzantine type.
Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
[CΚΥΘΟ]-ΠΟΛHC, Justin II and Sophia seated facing, each holding cruciform sceptre; cross between / Large M, cross above, ANNO Ч II (date 'year 7') flanking, A below, HIK O in exergue. ABQ-A1; Album 3509.1. 6.68gr, 27mm, 7h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
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Umayyad Caliphate AE Fals. Time of 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, AH 65-70 (AD 685-705).
Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
The standing caliph 'Abd al-Malik holding sword; name and title in marginal legend / M above officina mark A and line below, marginal legend with shortened version of the creed of Islam. 2.51gr, 16mm, 1h.
Good Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Umayyad Caliphate AE Fals. Time of Yazid I ibn Mu'awiya, AH 60-64 (AD 680-683). 'Pseudo-Damascus' Mint. Arab-Byzantine type.
Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £40
Imperial figure seated on throne facing, holding long cross in his right hand and globus cruciger in his left; in field to left, stylized bird on T-shaped porch / Large M in centre; in left field, A Θ; in right field, blundered date; above, cross between ornaments; below, inverted Є; in exergue [ΔΑΜ?]. Goodwin&Gyselen p. 80, fig. 17, 119 (for reverse). 2.90gr, 17mm, 3h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
