Watch List notes:

UMAYYAD, TEMP. YAZID II (101-105h), Dirham, Sijistan 102h. OBVERSE: In place of annulets: annulet and triplet of pellets, followed by four unread words (possibly khayr or bakh?). REVERSE: In field: three pellets below. WEIGHT: 2.61g. REFERENCES: Klat 444.1 (a single example from the same dies); SCC -. CONDITION: Some deposit, almost very fine and extremely rare. NOTE: Instead of a regular pattern of annulets on the obverse, this unusual issue appears to have an outer border different from any other known for the Umayyad silver coinage. It clearly begins with a single annulet and three pellets positioned at roughly 12 o'clock, but after this come four symbols which appear to be either individual letters or short words. Klat illustrates a specimen in Tübingen where the border is a little clearer than on the present coin, and suggests that all four other words or characters are identical. They may in fact be different individual letters which might spell a name if taken together, but unfortunately neither this coin nor Klat's scan is sufficiently clear to suggest what this might be.

Estimate: £3,000-4000