404, Lot: 344. Estimate $75. Sold for $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOCAL ISSUES, Tabaristan. Dabuyid ispahbads. Dad-burzmihr. Circa AD 728/30-740. AR Hemidrachm (23.5mm, 2.04 g, 3h). Tabaristan mint. Dated PYE 86 = AH 120 (AD 737/8). Crowned Sassanian style bust right; 'pd in Pahlavi in outer margin / Fire altar flanked by attendants; star and crescent flanking flames; alternating triple pellets and star-in-crescents in outer margin. Malek 23.1-2; Album 51; ICV –. Near EF, traces of hard green deposits.