334, Lot: 480. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ISLAMIC, Arab-Sasanian coinage. Æ Pashiz (18mm, 3.11 g). Susa mint. No date. Crowned bust left; illegible Pahlavi legend before, three pellet(s?) behind / Facing bust surrounded by twelve rays or smaller busts(?). Gyselen – (but see Type 38 for obv.); Album –. Fine, brown surfaces. Unpublished?.
From the J. P. Righetti Collection, 172.
Gyselen Type 38 has a near identical obverse. The reverse of that issue bears the mint name Šūš.