Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. al-Walid I ibn 'Abd al-Malik. AH 86-96 / AD 705-715. Pale AV Solidus (13mm, 4.06 g, 8h). Spanish mint. Dated IY 11 (AH 94 = AD 712/3). [...]IHSSτSИS∂ИИI around star of eight rays; Ss retrograde / II(retrograde S)I(retrograde C)+NNΛNOSNITR(retrograde F)(retrograde ∂)(retrograde L)SN around IN∂C XI; macrons above N and XI. Cf. SICA I 742 (for type); cf. Walker, Arab-Byzantine 181 (same); cf. Gomez, Hispano 1 (same); AGC I 29; Album 122; ICV 139; DCA p. 621. Light toning in devices, minor porosity, light marks. VF.


Ex Stack's Bowers Galleries (12 August 2015), lot 30115.