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366, Lot: 344. Estimate $1500.
Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

RELIGIOUS TOKENS & AMULETS. AV Fantasy Token (37mm, 42.02 g, 1h). Imitating a Sasanian drachm. Bust right, wearing elaborate headdress and ornate garment with flames at edges; pseudo-Pahlavi legend around / Elaborate fire altar with simian-like attendants; bust right in flames; additional simian-like attendants on either side of altar shaft; pseudo-Pahlavi legend around. Unpublished in the standard references. As made, bright surfaces, some hairlines, evidence of possibly having been places in a bezel. A most unusual item of cross-cultural interest.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams.