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Auction 131  22-25 Nov 2022
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Lot 1800

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Sogdiana, Bukhara, local issue, (6th-8th centuries A.D., Mitchiner c.700 A.D.), billon drachm, (2.49 g), imitating Merv mint drachm of Sasanian King Bahram V, obv. crowned bust right, Bokharan legend around, rev. Fire altar with attendants and ribbon and crude crowned bust of Bahram right superimposed upon altar, (Mitchiner ACW 1395 [same dies], Zeimal fig. 1, 10-12; Walker, Arab-Sassanian, pp. 166, [Pl.XXIX, 5]). Worn and fine as usual, rare.

Ex Jon Baker, Canberra from Noble Numismatics sale 83 lot 3587 part. Mitchiner assigns the issue to the Islamic period under Caliph Al Mahdi AH 158-169, A.D. 770-785. The Caliph's name is read behind the bust.

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