417, Lot: 351. Estimate $100. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HUNNIC TRIBES, Hephthalites. Anonymous. Before AD 700. AR Drachm (32mm, 3.36 g, 3h). Countermarked BBA mint issue of ‘Abdallah ibn Khazim, Zubayrid governor of Khorasan, dated AH 67 (in Pahlavi [AD 686/7]). Crowned Sasanian-style bust right; bismillah in Arabic in outer margin; triple pellets flanking lowest star-in-crescent; c/m: forepart of senmerv right / Fire altar with ribbons and attendants; star and crescent flanking flames. For coin: SICA I –; Walker, Arab-Sasanian 158 (mint read as Balkh; example without specific c/m); Album 18; ICV 16; for c/m: Göbl, Dokumente KM 3. Good VF, traces of find patina, a couple of small flan cracks and striking fractures.