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Two Very Rare Kavad II Drachms

Triton XIV, Lot: 534. Estimate $1500.
Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Kavād (Kavādh) II. AD 628. AR Drachm (31mm, 4.11 g, 9h). AHM (Hamadan) mint. Dated RY 2 (AD 628). Bust right, wearing mural crown with frontal crescent and korymbos set on crescent; ribbon on left shoulder, crescent and ribbon on right; stars flanking crown; star-in-crescents in margin / Fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants; star and crescent flanking flames, “tlyn” on left, “ahm” on right; triple border, star-in-crescents in margin. Malek, Kavad 1-8 (this coin unrecorded); Göbl type I/1; Mochiri 429; Paruck -; Saeedi -. EF, toned. Very rare.


From the William B. Warden, Jr. Collection.