427, Lot: 499. Estimate $75. Sold for $50. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Mu'awiya I ibn Abi Sufyan or Yazid I ibn Mu'awiya. AH 41-64 / AD 661-683. AR Drachm (28mm, 2.73 g, 3h). Arab-Sasanian type. Issue of Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, governor of Iraq. BCRA (al-Basra) mint. Dated AH 62 in Pahlavi (AD 681/2). Crowned Sassanian style bust right; bismillah in Arabic; four pellets to right of lowest star-in-crescent / Fire altar flanked by attendants; star and crescent flanking flames. SICA I 76 var. (AH date); Album 12; ICV 11. VF.