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268, Lot: 481. Estimate $100.
Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Time of the Rashidun. Yazdigerd type. AH 31-41 / AD 651-661. AR Drachm (34mm, 3.79 g, 9h). In the name and types of Yazdgird III. SK (Sakastan) mint. Dated YE 20; struck circa AH 31-45 (AD 651-666). Crowned bust right; bism Allah in margin / Fire altar flanked by attendants; star and crescent flanking flames. SICA I 353-7; Album 1. Good VF, toned, deep flan crack, crystallization.


This is generally recognized as the earliest datable Islamic coinage.