383, Lot: 357. Estimate $300. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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HUNNIC TRIBES, Uncertain. Tobazini and his successors. Circa AD 420-475. AR Drachm (25mm, 3.00 g, 6h). Imitating an issue of Vahrām (Bahram) IV. Uncertain mint in Bactria or north of the Hindu Kush. Bust right, wearing winged merlon crown with
korymbos set on crescent; trace of tamgha to right / Fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants. Cf. Vondrovec [Göbl, Hunnen] Type 32A (for type). Good VF, toned, traces of double strike, encrustation on reverse. Possibly overstruck on an uncertain undertype.