CNG 84, Lot: 1694. Estimate $300. Sold for $230. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Persia (Post-Mongol). Safavids. Tahmasp I. AH 930-984 / AD 1524-1576. AV Half Miqthal (16mm, 2.31 g, 12h). Jafarabad mint. Dated AH 976 (AD 1568/9). Shi’ite Kalima in five lines; names of imams around / Name and title of Tahmasp, AH date and mint in six lines; all within octalobe; continuation of legend in outer margin. Cf. Farahbakhsh 36; SICA 9 -; Album 2591. VF.