$200  $95

A with nice blue zones, on a muscovite matrix.  Apart from the Jagdalek rubies, I have not seen much in the way of corundum from Afghanistan, and certainly no sapphire specimens.

There are no images of anything other than Afghan rubies pictured on Mindat, so I take it as a sign (combined with my not having seen anything at shows) that this is something reasonably new..  The termination is missing; even so, it is priced at a fraction of what I have seen similar specimens being offered for in Tucson.