CNG 97, Lot: 462. Estimate $1000. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Vahrām (Bahram) II, with Prince 3. AD 276-293. AR Drachm (27mm, 4.04 g, 3h). Bust of Bahram right vis-à-vis bust of prince 3 left; Bahram wearing winged crown with korymbos, prince wearing kolah with boar’s head / Fire altar; flanked by two attendants, each wearing crown with korymbos; to right of flames; pellet and triple pellets flanking flames. SNS type III(1)/2(1a), Style Ater and pl. 15, A19-20 (pellet and triple pellets transposed); Göbl type I/1a; Saeedi 152 var. (no pellet to left of flames); Sunrise –. VF, toned, minor delamination and traces of die rust between portraits. Rare.