Lot 204. Umayyad Caliphate. Anonymous. A.D. 712-714/AH 93. AV solidus. Traveling mint in Spain. Musa bin Musavr, governor. Extremely Rare. Ex Triskeles 16. From the RWH Collection.

Umayyad Caliphate. Anonymous. A.D. 712-714/AH 93. AV solidus (13 mm, 3.49 g). Traveling mint in Spain. Musa bin Musavr, governor. in nomine domini non Deus nisi Deus solus cui non socius, Star at the center (believed to represent the Evening Star) / Blundered and abbreviated Latin legends: "INdC X" at center, "hic solidus feritus in Spania anno XCNN" around. Album 122; Fr-7a; Bernardi 30; Walker p.44. VF. Extremely Rare. Ex Triskeles 16. From the RWH Collection. The principal mint was not permanently located, but traveled with the governor Musa bin Nusayr; the general who directed the Islamic conquest of the Visigothic Kingdom in Hispania

 

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