286, Lot: 495. Estimate $100. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Dārāy. Circa AH 72-95 / AD 691-714. Æ Pashiz (20mm, 1.06 g, 6h). Bīshāpūr mint. Nimbate and bearded bust facing; pellet-within-annulet to either side / Crowned Gōpatshāh to right; three pellets at end of diadem and at end of tail, [pellet] between forelegs, Pahlavi letter “P” and star to right. Gyselen 7.4 (this coin cited). Near Fine, brown patina. One of twelve cited by Gyselen.

From the J. P. Righetti Collection, 11. Ex F. Gurnet Collection.

The Gōpatshāh, a king in Iranian mythology, was half bull and half human. It appears on Arab-Sasanian coinage paired with three different obverse types (Gyselen 6-8).