90, Lot: 162. Estimate $100. Sold for $66. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARAB-SASANIAN. Khurasan. Governor Salim ibn Ziyad. 680-684 AD. AR Drachm (34mm, 4.01 gm). MRW (Marw) mint. Dated AH 64 (683/4 AD). Sasanian style bust imitating Khosrau II right; Arabic marginal legend / Fire altar flanked by attendants; date and mint. SIC Ashmolean 334; Walker, Arab-Sassanian 134; Album 18. Good VF, toned, some earthen encrustation on reverse.

From the Bellaria Collection.