370, Lot: 254. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HUNNIC TRIBES, Hephthalites. Anonymous. Before AD 700. AR Drachm (32mm, 3.37 g, 9h). Imitating an AH 64 drachm of Salm ibn Ziyad from the MRW (Merv) mint. Crowned Sasanian-style bust right; no bismallah in outer margin; c/m: Sogdian legend and tamgha / Fire altar flanked by attendants; star and crescent flanking flames. For coin: cf. Walker 133-5 (for type with bismallah) and p. 82, C. 6 (for type without bismallah; Merv al-Rudh mint); cf. Album 18; CNG 60, lot 1096 (same dies); for c/m: Göbl, Dokumente, KM 79. Good VF, a few minor seposits.