CNG 88, Lot: 656. Estimate $150. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Husrav (Khosrau) I. AD 531-579. AR Drachm (32mm, 3.96 g, 9h). YZ (Yazd[?]) mint. Dated RY 44 (AD 574). Bust right, wearing mural crown with frontal crescent, korymbos set on crescent, and inner ribbon, ribbons on shoulders, crescent on right shoulder; stars flanking head; crescents in margin / Fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants; star and crescent flanking flames; RY date on left, mint signature on right. Göbl type II/2; Saeedi -. VF, areas of minor porosity.