Sale: Triton X, Lot: 901. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $520. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. AH 65-86 / AD 685-705. AR Drachm (3.96 g, 4h). Arab-Sasanian type, imitating Khosrau II. SK (Sistan) mint; ‘Abd al-Aziz ibn ‘Abdallah ibn ‘Amir, governor. Dated AH 66 (AD 685/6). “Splendor may he increase”• in Pahlavi in two lines to left, “Abd al-Aziz i Abdullah i Amyran in two lines to right, Sasanian style bust imitating Khosrau II right; \ on breast; star and crescents ending in pellets; pellet to left of crown, triple pellets flanking lower star and crescent; “al-Aziz” in lower left outer margin, “bismillah” in lower right, four pellets below left star and crescent; c/m: “jaiz” in Arabic in upper left outer margin / Blundered AH date to left, mint to right, fire altar with ribbons and attendants; crescent and star flanking flames. For coin: SICA 1, 366; Walker, Arab-Sassanian p. 96, Cam. 7; Album 25; for c/m: Walker 42. Good VF, attractively toned.