Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 1686. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $165. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARAB-SASANIAN. Fars. Governor Khalid ibn Abd Allah. 692-694 AD. AR Drachm (4.06 gm). BYS (Bishapur) mint. Dated AH 74 (693/4 AD). Sasanian style bust imitating Khosrau II right; Arabic marginal legend / Fire altar flanked by attendants; date and mint, pellets in margin. SIC Ashmolean 192; Walker, Arab-Sassanian 214; Album 24. Toned EF, a little porosity. ($150)

From the Bellaria Collection.