288, Lot: 620. Estimate $150. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Arab-Sasanian coinage. Yazdigerd type. Circa 652-668. AR Drachm (34mm, 3.99 g, 12h). SK (Sīstān/Sijistān) mint. Dated frozen YE 20 (AH 30/1 / AD 651/2). Crowned Sasanian-style bust right; bism allāh in margin / Fire altar flanked by attendants; star and crescent flanking flames. SICA I, 353-7; Album 1. Good VF, toned.

From the J. P. Righetti Collection, 82.

Generally considered to be the earliest definitive Islamic issue, i.e., with religious legend in Arabic.