256, Lot: 189. Estimate $300. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Narseh (Narsē). AD 293-303. AR Drachm (26mm, 3.49 g, 3h). Bust right, wearing crown with arcades, three foliate branches, and korymbos; hair in single group / Fire altar with ribbon; flanked by two attendants, fravahr and taurus symbol flanking flames, three pellets on altar. Göbl type II/2; Paruck 165; Saeedi 176. Good VF, toned, some minor porosity.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 31 (9 September 1994), lot 514.