402, Lot: 402. Estimate $75. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HUNNIC TRIBES, Hephthalites. Anonymous. Before AD 700. AR Drachm (35mm, 3.21 g, 5h). Countermarked MRW (Merv) mint issue of Salm ibn Ziyad, Umayyad governor of Khorasan, dated AH 64 (in Pahlavi [AD 683/4]). Crowned Sasanian-style bust right; bismillah in Arabic in outer margin; triple pellets flanking lowest star-in-crescent; c/ms: forepart of senmerv right in incuse and ‘nnulet-in-crescent’ tamgha (2) / Fire altar with ribbons and attendants; star and crescent flanking flames. For coin: SICA I –; Walker, Arab-Sasanian 133-5 (examples with different c/ms); Album 18; ICV 15; for c/ms: Göbl, Dokumente cf. KM 3 (for type) and KM 14. VF, toned, wavy flan.