Extremely Rare Obol

223, Lot: 258. Estimate $100. Sold for $145. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PERSIS. Pakur (Pakor) I(?). Early 1st century AD. AR Obol (9mm, 0.57 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust left; X-shaped star before / Eagle facing, head left, holding wreath in beak. Alram -; BMC - (but cf. p. 231, 1 for a similar drachm); De Morgan -; Tyler-Smith, Parcel -; Peus 371, lot 233 var. (no star on obv.). VF. Extremely rare.