65, Lot: 140. Estimate $150. Sold for $96. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ORIENTAL GREEK. Lot of three AR Drachms. Includes the following: SASANIAN KINGS of PERSIA. Yazdgard III. 632-651 AD. AR Drachm (32mm, 3.42 gm). SK mint. Dated Year 4 (635-636 AD). Crowned bust right / Fire altar. Göbl I/1. VF, typical flat spots // ARAB-SASANIAN. In the Name of Khusru II. AR Drachm (32mm, 3.99 gm). SY=Uncertain mint. Year 29 YE (Yezdigird era = 40 AH, 660 AD). Crowned bust of Khusru II right; Bismillah in margin / Fire altar. Cf. SICA 381; Walker, Arab Sassanian pg. 11, 16 var. (year 30). Toned, good VF // NEZAK HUNS. Circa 650-720 AD. Billon Drachm (28mm, 3.38 gm). Bust right, wearing bull's head crown / Fire altar. Göbl Hunnen Em. 198.1. Toned, good VF, light encrustation, partial flat strike // Lot also includes two Islamic coins: The Abbasids. Æ Fals (24mm, 2.56 gm). Sijistan mint, dated AH 136 (753/4 AD). Bismallah; marginal legends with date and mint / Central legend "sixty to the dirhem". Shamma pg. 288, 1. Near VF, scarce // The Ghaznavids. Abu'l-Qasim Mahmud, bin Sebuktekin. As autonomous ruler. AH 388-421 (998-1030 AD). AR Tanka (Dirhem) (19mm, 2.85 gm). Mahmudpur (Lahore) mint. Struck AH 418 (1027/1028 AD). Kalima, mint and date in Arabic / Kalima, mint and date in Sanskrit. BMC Oriental II pg. 151, 507. VF. Rare. Five (5) coins total in lot.