LOCAL ISSUES, Tabaristan. Dabuyid ispahbads. Farrukhan Buzurg. Circa AD 711-728/30. AR Hemidrachm (24mm, 2.09 g, 3h). Tabaristan mint. Dated PYE 68 (AD 719/20). Crowned Sassanian style bust right; d'tbwrcmtr' in Pahlavi to right; 'pd in Pahlavi to lower right in outer margin / Fire altar flanked by attendants; pellets flanking flames; date to left, mint to right; alternating triple pellets and star-in-crescents in outer margin. Malek 9.1-5; Album 50; ICV –. EF, toned.
From the Delbert Carl Highlands Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 58 (19 September 2001), lot 838 (part of).