Watch List notes:

HUNNIC TRIBES, Hephthalites. Anonymous. Circa 484/8-560. AR Drachm (29mm, 3.44 g, 3h). Mustachioed half-length bareheaded bust of prince facing, head left, holding drinking cup; corrupt Baktrian legends in fields / Sasanian style bust imitating Vahrām (Bahram) V right. Vondrovec [Göbl, Hunnen] Type 287A-B; cf. Alram & Pfisterer, p. 32; Alram, Schatzfund 48 var. (tamgha to right on rev.); cf. Zeno 42957 (for type). Toned, traces of deposits, struck on ragged flan. Good VF. Extremely rare.


Ex Triton XVII (6 January 2014), lot 489.