384, Lot: 683. Estimate $75. Sold for $77. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLAMIC, 'Abbasid Caliphate. temp. al-Mahdi. AH 158-169 / AD 775-785. AR Hemidrachm (23mm, 2.06 g, 9h). Issue of ‘Umar ibn al-’Ala, governor in Tabaristan. Tabaristan mint. Dated PYE 128 = AH 163 (AD 779/80). Stylized crowned Sassanian style bust right;
mqatl in Arabic to 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 79.3 (same obv. die, but in an earlier die state); Album 56; ICV 104. Good VF, toned, die breaks in outer margin of obverse.