282, Lot: 400. Estimate $150. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Arab-Sasanian coinage. Salm ibn Ziyād. Governor, circa AH 61-65 /AD 680-684. AR Drachm (33mm, 3.96 g, 3h). Posthumous issue. HRA (Harāt) mint. Dated AH 67 (AD 686/7). Crowned Sasanian-style bust right; bism allāh.·. in margin / Fire altar flanked by attendants; star and crescent flanking flames; additional star in margin at 11 o’clock. SICA I, 306; Album 18. Near EF.

From the J. P. Righetti Collection, 72.