CNG 88, Lot: 655. Estimate $150. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Kavād (Kavādh) I. Second reign, AD 488-497. AR Drachm (29mm, 4.08 g, 3h). GW (Gurgan) mint. Dated RY 39 (AD 526). Bust right, wearing mural crown with frontal crescent, two ribbons, and korymbos set on crescent, ribbons and crescents on shoulders; stars flanking head; star-in-crescents in margin / Fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants; star and crescent flanking flames; RY date on left, mint signature on right. SNS type Ic/1a; Göbl type III/1; Saeedi -. Good VF, areas of light toning, reverse double struck.