Triton XIV, Lot: 535. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Kavād (Kavādh) II. AD 628. AR Drachm (32mm, 4.12 g, 9h). AYLAN 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, “aylan” on right; triple border, star-in-crescents in margin. Malek, Kavad 31-50 (this coin unrecorded); Göbl type I/1; Mochiri 925; Paruck -; Saeedi 290. EF, toned. Rare.

From the William B. Warden, Jr. Collection. Ex Peus 361 (3 November 1999), lot 354.