Baldwin's Auctions Ltd > Auction C24003Auction date: 19 March 2024
Lot number: 3

Price realized: 120 GBP   (Approx. 153 USD / 140 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Arab-Byzantine, temp. Mu'awiya I ibn Abi Sufyan (AH 41?60 / AD 661?680 AD), bronze Fals, Hims, 3.13g (SICA 541). About Very Fine. Minor deposits to surfaces.

Estimate: 20 - 30 GBP

Match 1:
Baldwin's Auctions Ltd > Auction C24003Auction date: 19 March 2024
Lot number: 2

Price realized: 110 GBP   (Approx. 140 USD / 129 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Arab-Byzantine, temp. Mu'awiya I ibn Abi Sufyan (AH 41?60 / AD 661?680 AD), bronze Fals, Hims, 3.39g (SICA 531ff). Fine. Minor deposits to surfaces.

Estimate: 20 - 30 GBP

Match 2:
Baldwin's Auctions Ltd > Auction C24003Auction date: 19 March 2024
Lot number: 1

Price realized: 230 GBP   (Approx. 292 USD / 269 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Arab-Byzantine, temp. Mu'awiya I ibn Abi Sufyan (AH 41?60 / AD 661?680 AD), bronze Fals, Hims, 4.28g (A. 3524). Very Fine for the issue, very rare. Minor deposits to surfaces.

Estimate: 50 - 100 GBP

Match 3:
Baldwin's Auctions Ltd > Auction C24003Auction date: 19 March 2024
Lot number: 5

Price realized: 45 GBP   (Approx. 57 USD / 53 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Arab-Byzantine, temp. Mu'awiya I ibn Abi Sufyan (AH 41?60 / AD 661?680 AD), bronze Fals, Hims, 3.03g (A. 3516). Fine.

Estimate: 20 - 30 GBP

Match 4:
Baldwin's Auctions Ltd > Auction C24003Auction date: 19 March 2024
Lot number: 4

Price realized: 35 GBP   (Approx. 44 USD / 41 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Arab-Byzantine, temp. Mu'awiya I ibn Abi Sufyan (AH 41?60 / AD 661?680 AD), bronze Fals, Tardus (Antardos), 4.46g (A. 3225). About Very Fine for the issue. Very rare.

Estimate: 20 - 30 GBP

Match 5:
Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28Auction date: 9 December 2023
Lot number: 5663

Price realized: 280 CHF   (Approx. 318 USD / 296 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Mu'awiya I ibn Abi Sufyan, AH 41-60 / AD 661-680. Fals (Bronze, 24 mm, 2.20 g, 7 h), Arab-Byzantine, derived from a Constantine IV follis from Syracuse, uncertain, circa AH 50 = AD 670. Helmeted, draped and cuirassed bust of Constantine IV facing, holding globus cruciger in his right hand; to left and right, blundered legend. Rev. Large M flanked by standing and facing figures, each wearing crown and chlamys and holding globus cruciger in his right hand; above, monogram; in exergue, blundered SCL. Album 3508. DOCAB 25. Goodwin&Gyselen, p. 48, Class I. Very rare. Some light deposits and with an edge crack, otherwise, good very fine.


From a European collection, formed before 2005.

It is still very much unclear whether the obverse legend on this type it is a blundered version of something meaningful or simply meaningless scribble. One possible reading offered by T. Goodwin and R. Gyselen is 'mlt'n' - MLKA ('Martan Shah', 'king of men' in Pahlawi) .

Starting price: 25 CHF