CNG 106, Lot: 928. Estimate $500. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Ibn al-Ash'ath. Rebel, AH 80-84 / AD 699-704. AR Drachm (33mm, 4.05 g, 12h). Issue of ‘Amr ibn Laqit, deputy in Kirman. KRMKRMAN sic (Kirmān) mint. Dated AH 82(?) in Pahlavi (AD 701/2). Crowned Sasanian-style bust right; pyrwc in Pahlavi before name; bismillah in Arabic, šsrwy in Pahlavi, and amara Allah in Arabic in outer margin; triple pellets flanking lowest star-in-crescent / Fire altar with ribbons and attendants; star and crescent flanking flames. SICA I, p. 34; Walker, Arab-Sasanian –; cf. Album 39; cf. ICV 54. Near EF, toned. Apparently unpublished with the added Pahlavi legend in the obverse margin.