369, Lot: 586. Estimate $150. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, 'Abbasid Caliphate. temp. al-Rashid. AH 170-193 / AD 786-809. AR Hemidrachm (24mm, 1.92 g, 10h). Issue of al-Harashi, governor in Tabaristan. Tabaristan mint. Dated PYE 151 (AD 802/3). Stylized crowned Sassanian style bust right; ’pd in Pahlavi to lower right in outer margin; nwk’ in Pahlavi to lower left / Fire altar flanked by attendants; pellets flanking flames; date to left, mint to right; alternating triple pellets and star-in-crescents in outer margin. Malek 91.1-3; Album 61; ICV –. VF, small flan crack and light scrape in obersemargin. Rare.