365, Lot: 410. Estimate $100. Sold for $125. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Yazid I ibn Mu'awiya. AH 60-64 / AD 680-683. AR Drachm (29mm, 2.96 g, 6h). Issue of Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, governor of Iraq. NY (Nihawand[?]) mint. Dated AH 57 (AD 676/7). Crowned Sassanian style bust right; bismillah in Arabic and triple pellets in outer margin / Fire altar flanked by attendants; star and crescent flanking flames; date to left, mint to right. SICA I 44; cf. Walker, Arab-Sasanian, p. 67, ETN. 14 I. 23; Album 12; Wilkes 11. Good VF, toned.