Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 454. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $6750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Khosrau II. AD 591-628. AR Drachm (4.20 g, 10h). Uncertain mint. Dated RY 36 (AD 626). Facing bust of Khosrau, wearing mural crown with two wings and star-in-crescent, ribbons on shoulders; star-in-crescents flanking crown; double border, star-in-crescents in margin / Facing bust of Anahit with flame nimbus; date to left; double inner border and single outer border, star-in-crescents in between. Malek, Khusrau 51-8; Göbl type IV/5, fig. 219; Paruck -; Saeedi 281. Superb EF. Very rare.

Ex Peus 380 (3 November 2004), lot 642.