Triton XIV, Lot: 473. Estimate $500. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Narseh (Narsē). AD 293-303. AR Drachm (28mm, 4.01 g, 3h). Bust right, wearing crown with arcades, three foliate branches, and korymbos; hair in single group / Fire altar; flanked by two attendants, both wearing mural crowns, the left with korymbos; fravahr and taurus symbol flanking flames. SNS type Ia/1a; Göbl type II/2 var. (altar with ribbon); Paruck 165; Saeedi 176 (same dies). EF, toned, a few light scratches under tone.

From the William B. Warden, Jr. Collection.