CNG 87, Lot: 809. Estimate $200. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOCAL ISSUES, Tokharistan. Uncertain Turkic yabgju. Circa AD 580-750. AR Drachm (28mm, 2.75 g, 3h). Imitating Khusro I drachm. Crowned Sasanian-style bust right; c/ms: head right, wearing boar’s skin headdress (3) / Fire altar; flanked by two attendants; star and crescent flanking flames; trace of swastika above “f”-shaped symbol to right of attendant; c/m: inscription in Bactrian in two lines, all in incuse. For coin: cf. Kusnetzov, Katalog 66 (dies 14/20); cf. Göbl, Dokumente 295 (for type); for c/m: cf. http://www.sogdcoins.narod.ru/tokharistan/pic/ab13.jpg (obv.) and Kusnetzov, Katalog Countermark 3 (rev.) . Near EF, areas of light toning. Rare.