379, Lot: 427. Estimate $100. Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Mu'awiya I ibn Abi Sufyan or Yazid I ibn Mu'awiya. AH 41-64 / AD 661-683. AR Drachm (32mm, 4.05 g, 9h). Arab-Sasanian type. Issue of Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, governor of Iraq. BCRA (al-Basra) mint. Dated AH 61 in Pahlavi (AD 680/1). Crowned Sassanian style bust right; bismillah in Arabic; four pellets flanking lowest star-in-crescent / Fire altar flanked by attendants; star and crescent flanking flames; date to left, mint to right. SICA I 77-86; Walker, Arab-Sasanian 85-6; Album 12; ICV 11. Good VF, areas of deposit and corrosion at peripheries.

From the Delbert Carl Highlands Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 58 (19 September 2001), lot 838 (part of); G. Hirsch 153 (18 February 1987), lot 188.