417, Lot: 509. Estimate $75.
Sold for $85. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Mu'awiya I ibn Abi Sufyan. AH 41-60 / AD 661-680. AR Drachm (26mm, 2.30 g, 3h). Arab-Sasanian type. Issue of Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan.. BYŠ (Bishapur) mint. Dated AH 51
in Pahlavi (AD 671/2). Sasanian style bust right;
bismillah and
rabbi in margin / Fire altar with ribbons and attendants; star and crescent flanking flames; pellet before mint. SICA I –; cf. Walker,
Arab-Sasanian, p. 22, M. 17; Album 5; ICV 7. VF, traces of deposits, clipped. Rare with pellet.
