RRR! Earliest Islamic coins of India - silver damma w/Lillah, c.712/717 AD, Multan

Heavily stylized head facing right within a dotted border // Stylized fire altar with three dots, Arabic word "Lillah" on the base of the altar, Brahmi/ Sharada legend "Sri Tapanasa" ("of Tapana"). 11mm, 0.61 grams. Fishman/Todd "The Silver Damma" #M24.1 (this coin).

This particular coin is pictured in the Fishman/Todd catalogue. Extremely rare and interesting, the earliest of all Islamic coins in India, minted very soon after the conquest of Multan by the Umayyad Caliphate in 712 CE. Extremely rare. Four coins published in Fishman and Todd, I am not aware of more specimens 

This rare type might well be the most interesting issue in the three-dot series, probably being the earliest of the post-Islamic conquest types – the old reverse design was kept in its entirety, including the entire Sharada legend and the fire altar, but the Arabic word لله - “Lillah” (“in Allah” or “in God”) was added to the reverse. Thus, the reverse of these coins combines elements of three cultures – the remnants of the Zoroastrian fire altar, the old design of the Hindu coins and the Islamic “Lillah”.