90, Lot: 161. Estimate $100. Sold for $76. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARAB-SASANIAN. Fars. Governor Umar ibn Ubayd Allah. 686-689 AD. AR Drachm (30mm, 3.98 gm). BYSh (Bishapur) mint. Dated AH 68 (687/8 AD). Sasanian style bust imitating Khosrau II right; Arabic marginal legend / Fire altar flanked by attendants; date and mint. SIC Ashmolean 159; Walker, Arab-Sassanian 195; Album 21. Near EF, lightly toned.

From the Bellaria Collection.