400, Lot: 711. Estimate $500. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, 'Abbasid Caliphate. temp. al-Mansur to Harun al-Rashid. AH 136-193 / AD 754-809. BI Drachm (36mm, 3.50 g, 8h). Eastern Sistan Series. Sears Class IV. Zaranj mint; Halil, mintmaster or financial officer. Struck circa AD 770s. Stylized crowned Sassanian style bust right; pseudo- GDH and ’pzwt in Pahlavi to left; pseudo- hwslwb in Pahlavi to right; in outer margins, bismillah rabbi,and halil in Arabic / Fire altar with ribbons and attendants; pseudo-date to left, pseudo-mint to right. Album 86D; ICV 75. Good VF, traces of deposits at peripheries, slight double strike on obverse. Very rare.