208, Lot: 455. Estimate $100. Sold for $93. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Mu'awiya I ibn Abi Sufyan. AH 41-60 / AD 661-680. AR Drachm (32mm, 4.10 g, 2h). Arab-Sasanian type. BCRA (Basra) mint. ‘Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, governor. Dated AH 61 (AD 680/1). Sasanian style bust imitating Khosrau II right; bismillah in margin / Fire altar with ribbons and attendants; star and crescent flanking flames; date to left, mint name to right. SICA I 77-86; Album 12. VF, some peripheral roughness, minor encrustation on reverse.