Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 762. 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 (3.20 g, 8h). Imitating Sasanian king Peroz I, AD 438-457. Crowned bust right; four large pellets along border, IOOMO in lower right outer margin; c/ms: head with flowing hair right and “scrolled heart” design / Fire altar with ribbons and attendants, star and crescent flanking flames. For coin: Göbl, Dokumente Em. 290/4-5; for heart c/m: Göbl, Dokumente KM 90; for head c/m: Göbl, Dokumente KM -. VF, find patina, flan crack caused by application of head countermark.