365, Lot: 409. Estimate $150. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Yazid I ibn Mu'awiya. AH 60-64 / AD 680-683. AR Drachm (32mm, 3.89 g, 3h). Issue of Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, governor of Iraq. AYRAN (Hulwan[?]) mint. Dated PYE 30 (AD 681/2). Crowned Sassanian style bust right; yzan (?) in Pahlavi [and bismillah in Arabic] in outer margin / Fire altar flanked by attendants; star and crescent flanking flames; date to left, mint to right. SICA I 44; cf. Walker, Arab-Sasanian, p. 53, I. 23; Album 12A; Wilkes 11. Good VF, toned, clipped. Very rare mint.