373, Lot: 490. Estimate $100.
Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Yazid I ibn Mu'awiya. AH 60-64 / AD 680-683. AR Drachm (31mm, 3.97 g, 10h). Issue of Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, governor of Iraq. DA=G (Jahrumd) mint. Dated AH 54
in Pahlavi (AD 673/4). Crowned Sassanian style bust right;
bismillah in Arabic and triple pellets in outer margin / Fire altar flanked by attendants; star and crescent flanking flames; date to left, mint to right. SICA I 264 var. (star and crescent reversed); Walker,
Arab-Sasanian –; Album 12; ICV 11. VF, areas of toning, possible graffiti in margin of reverse.
