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431, Lot: 471. Estimate $100.
Sold for $105. 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 (32mm, 3.89 g, 3h). Issue of Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, governor of Iraq. ST (Istakhr) mint. Dated AH 61 (AD 680/1). Crowned Sassanian style bust right / Fire altar flanked by attendants; star and crescent flanking flames; date to left, mint to right. SICA I 375 var. (date); cf. Walker, Arab-Sasanian 107 (for type); Album 12. EF.


Ex Classical Numismatic Group 355 (15 July 2015), lot 776.