399, Lot: 629. Estimate $100. Sold for $75. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Mu'awiya I ibn Abi Sufyan. AH 41-60 / AD 661-680. AR Drachm (30mm, 3.16 g, 3h). Arab-Sasanian type. Issue of Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, governor of Iraq. SK (Sijistan) mint. Dated AH 56 in Pahlavi (AD 675/6). Crowned Sasanian-style bust right; bismillah in Arabic in outer margin; pellets to right of lowest star-in-crescent; c/m: forepart of senmerv left in incuse / Fire altar with ribbons and attendants; star and crescent flanking flames. For coin: SICA 1 365; Walker, Arab-Sasanian, 92 var. (issue with different countermark); Album 12; ICV 11; for c/m: Göbl, Dokumente KM 11. Good VF, a few deposits.