417, Lot: 350. Estimate $100. Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HUNNIC TRIBES, Hephthalites. Anonymous. Before AD 700. BI Drachm (32.5mm, 3.34 g, 9h). Countermarked imitation of an eastern Sistan issue (cf. Sears Class III). Crowned Sasanian-style bust right; bismillah twice and rabbi in Arabic in outer margin; triple pellets flanking lowest star-in-crescent; c/m: uncertain Bactrian inscription in incuse / Fire altar with ribbons and attendants; star and crescent flanking flames. For coin: SICA I –; Walker, Arab-Sasanian –; cf. Album 78; cf ICV 712; for c/m: cf. Göbl, Dokumente KM 13. Good Fine, find patina, light porosity, traces of die rust.