256, Lot: 194. Estimate $150. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Ardaxšīr (Ardashir) III. AD 628-630. AR Drachm (34mm, 4.19 g, 3h). WYHC mint. Dated RY 2 (AD 629). Bust right, wearing mural crown with frontal crescent; 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; triple border, star-in-crescents in margin. Göbl type II/1; Saeedi 295. EF, toned, minor porosity.