90, Lot: 164. Estimate $50. Sold for $46. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARAB-SASANIAN. Tabaristan. Khurshid. 740-761 AD. AR Hemidrachm (25mm, 2.06 gm). Dated PYE 105 (756/7 AD). Sasanian style bust imitating Khosrau II right; Arabic marginal legend / Fire altar flanked by attendants; date and mint. H.M. Malek, "The Dabuyid Ispahbads of Tabaristan," AJN 5-6 (1993-4), 42; SIC Ashmolean -; cf. Walker, Arab-Sassanian pg. 131, d (PYE 90); Album 56. Good VF, toned.

From the Bellaria Collection.