Posted 11/18/2017 10:28 am
Beat me to it.
Arab-Sasanian, Muqatil, Abbassid Governors of Tabaristan, AR Hemidrachm, 139 PYE (Post Yazdgard Era = AH 174 = 790 AD)
Facing bust of Muqatil, head right, wearing winged crown surmounted by star and crescent, inside single-dotted border, crescents with stars at 3, 6 and 9 o'clock
||U| in lower left margin, APD in lower-right margin
Pahlavi date | mint mark
Sasanian style fire altar with two attendants standing facing, crescents on their heads, both hands on sword hilt, inside triple dotted-border, crescents with stars at 3, 6, 9 and 12 o'clock, three pellets at the diagonals
23mm, 1.72g
Mitchiner 282/284
Arab-Sasanian, Muqatil, Abbassid Governors of Tabaristan, AR Hemidrachm, 139 PYE (Post Yazdgard Era = AH 174 = 790 AD)
Facing bust of Muqatil, head right, wearing winged crown surmounted by star and crescent, inside single-dotted border, crescents with stars at 3, 6 and 9 o'clock
||U| in lower left margin, APD in lower-right margin
Pahlavi date | mint mark
Sasanian style fire altar with two attendants standing facing, crescents on their heads, both hands on sword hilt, inside triple dotted-border, crescents with stars at 3, 6, 9 and 12 o'clock, three pellets at the diagonals
23mm, 1.72g
Mitchiner 282/284
