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Online Auction 100 | Silver  18 Apr 2021
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Lot 477

Starting price: 75 EUR
Price realized: 95 EUR
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Arab-Byzantine. Hims (Emesa). trmp. Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan AH 65-86.
Fals AE

21 mm, 2,80 g

Caliph standing facing, bearded, placing his right hand on the pommel of his sword and whip hanging from his right elbow, around, legend with Caliph's name in Kufic / Transformed cross standing on three steps, in field to left, darb, in right field, 'in Hims' in Kufic, around, legend in Kufic.

nearly extremely fine

DOCAB 108; Goodwin, Standing Caliph Coinage, Hims, Type III; SICA I, 689.

Undoubtedly one of the finest known examples if not the finest for the issue.

This splendid example is surely deserving of a place of prominence in any premier collection of arab byzantine coinage.

From the Tareq Hani collection.
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