Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 761. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HUNNIC TRIBES, Hephthalites. Late 5th century AD. BI Drachm (2.43 g, 10h). Imitating Sasanian king Peroz I, AD 438-457. Crowned bust right; four large pellets along border, IOOMO in lower right outer margin; c/m: head right in floral spray / Fire altar with ribbons and attendants; star and crescent flanking flames. For coin: Göbl, Dokumente Em. 288; for c/m: Göbl, Dokumente KM -. VF, brown surfaces with traces of encrustation, flan crack at countermark. Unpublished countermark.