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385, Lot: 660. Estimate $150.
Sold for $130. 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, 3.80 g, 9h). Arab-Sasanian type. Issue of Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, governor of Iraq. BCRA (al-Basra) mint. Dated AH 62 in Pahlavi (AD 681/2). 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 87-93; Album 12; ICV 11. Good VF, lightly toned, traces of die rust, hairlines.