429, Lot: 394. Estimate $75. Sold for $75. 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. AR Drachm (27.5mm, 2.61 g, 9h). Arab-Sasanian type. Issue of Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, governor of Iraq. BCRA (al-Basra) mint. Dated AH 56 in Pahlavi (AD 676/7). Crowned Sassanian style bust right; bismillah in Arabic; three pellets to right of lowest star-in-crescent / Fire altar flanked by attendants; star and crescent flanking flames. SICA I 49; Album 12; ICV 11. VF, cleaning marks, lacquer residue.