Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 920. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $205. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HEPHTHALITES. Seistan or Arachosia. Circa 650-700 AD. AR Drachm (3.17 gm). Imitating Sasanian king Khosrau I. Regnal year "25". Crowned bust left resembling Khosrau I / Fire altar with attendants; swastika replacing mint name to right. Göbl, Hunnen Em 295; MACW 1490. Toned VF. ($200)

Almost all the known examples of this type bear later Hephthalite countermarks.