CNG 97, Lot: 465. Estimate $200. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Husrav (Khosrau) II. AD 590-628. Æ Follis (28mm, 10.06 g). Imitating a Byzantine follis of Heraclius with Heraclius Constantine. Uncertain Syrian mint. Struck during the Sasanian occupation of Syria, 610-629. Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine standing facing, each crowned and holding globus cruciger; cross above / [Large M, cross above, date across fields; mintmark below]. Cf. SB 805 (for prototype); Pottier Class IV(2), 59.1 (same obv. die); MIB X39-42 (same obv. die); CNG 81, lot 750 (same obv. die). VF, earthen brown patina, unstruck or very weakly struck reverse. Overstruck on an Antioch mint follis of Maurice Tiberius, SB 533.