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Details
LOT 3655
Umayyad Caliphate. Uncertain period AE Fals. Circa AH 77-132 (AD 697-750). Post-reform, no date. Unnamed Palestinian mint. Fruit Tree type.
Tree with fruits; around "Muhammad Rasul Allah" / Kufic inscription in three lines. Album B161(RR); SICA Vol.2, 1299; Zeno 118752; ICV -. Very Fine. Rare. Seemingly overstruck.(2.02gr, 19mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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