CNG 100, Lot: 191. Estimate $3000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Husrav (Khosrau) II. AD 590-628. AV Light Dinar (22mm, 4.58 g, 3h). Uncertain mint. Dated RY 21 (AD 610). GDH ’pzwt’ in Pahlavi to left, hwslwd in Pahlavi to right, bust right, wearing mural crown with frontal crescent and two wings surmounted by star-in-crescent; fillet over each shoulder, crescent over right shoulder, crown flanked by star and star-in-crescent / Facing bust of Anahit in flame nimbus; y’cwysty (date) in Pahlavi to left, ’yl’n ’pzwt hwytk’ in Pahlavi to right. Malek, Khusrau, 6-7; Göbl type III/4 (pl. 14, 217); Mochiri 916; Paruck –; Saeedi AV95 (same dies); Sunrise 986. VF, traces of deposits in devices, evidence of once having been placed in a bezel.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Buddy Ebsen Collection (Superior, 7 June 1987), lot 4234.