441, Lot: 249. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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HUNNIC TRIBES, Uncertain. Anonymous. Before 700. AR Drachm (31mm, 3.61 g, 3h). Countermarked ST (Istakhr) mint Pērōz (Fīrūz) I AR Drachm. Bust right, wearing mural crown with frontal crescent, korymbos set on crescent, and rear merlon (cf. SNS type IIa/1c); c/ms: CONOXOΛO and CΠI/CΛΓ, each in Bactrian in incuse and / Fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants; star and crescent flanking flames. Vondrovec [Göbl,
Hunnen] Type 283/b (example with c/ms). Good Fine, toned.
The host coin is likely itself an imitative issue.