ISLAMIC, Umayyad Caliphate. temp. Mu'awiya I ibn Abi Sufyan, AH 41-60 / AD 661-680. Drachm (Silver, 33 mm, 4.05 g, 9 h), Arab-Sasanian type, citing governor ʿUbayd Allah ibn Ziyad (AH 54-64 / AD 673-683), ST (Staxr/Istakhr), AH 59 = AD 678/9. Draped bust resembling Khosrau II to right, wearing an elaborate mural crown; behind head, ‘GDE / ʾp̄zwt'’ (‘[may his] glory increase’ in Pahlavi); before head, ‘ʾwbytʾlʾ / Y zyyʾtʾn’ = ‘Ubaydālā ī Ziyādān’ (‘ʿUbayd Allah son of Ziyad’ in Pahlavi); in the outer margin, ‘bism Allāh’ (‘In the name of Allah’ in Arabic). Rev. Fire altar with ribbons, flanked by two attendants; above altar, star and crescent; to left, date in Pahlavi, wrongly written as ‘nh'pntʾ’, instead of ‘nh'pncʾ’; to right, ‘ST’ (abbreviation for ‘Staxr’, the name of the mint in Pahlavi). Album 12. Traces of overstriking, otherwise, good very fine.