90, Lot: 163. Estimate $50. Sold for $48. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARAB-SASANIAN. Tabaristan. Farkhan. 711-731 AD. AR Hemidrachm (25mm, 2.05 gm). Dated PYE 76 (727/8 AD). Sasanian style bust imitating Khosrau II right; Arabic marginal legend / Fire altar flanked by attendants; date and mint, triple pellets in margins. H.M. Malek, "The Dabuyid Ispahbads of Tabaristan," AJN 5-6 (1993-4), 17; SIC Ashmolean -; cf. Walker, Arab-Sassanian pg. 130, b (PYE 75); Album 50. Good VF, toned.

From the Bellaria Collection.