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Auction 8  24-25 November 2014
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Lot 228

Starting price: 1000 CHF
Price realized: 6500 CHF
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LE MONDE ARABE
ARAB-BYZANTINE, CIRCA AH 60-72 (679-691).
Dynastie Omeyyade.
Fals non daté (vers 670-690), Baysan (Skythopolis). L'Empereur byzantin Justin II et sa femme Sophie auréolés, assis de face sur leurs trônes, tenant chacun un sceptre cruciforme / Lettre M majuscule. ANNO - XI de part et d'autre, CON à l'exergue. 12,55g. A - (cf. 3509.1); Walker - (cf. Pl 1, Nicomédie); Goodwin - (cf. 32, Nicomédie).

Rare. Très bel exemplaire.



An extremely rare imitation of a follis struck in Constantinople (inscribed "CON" on the reverse) and not in Nicomedia as it was commonly the case for this coinage. Unknown in all major references.
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