CNG 102, Lot: 717. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Vahrām (Bahram) II. AD 276-293. AV Dinar (21mm, 7.36 g, 3h). mzdysn bgy wrhr’n MRK’ ’yr’n MN yzd’n in Pahlavi, bust right, wearing winged crown with korymbos / Blundered nwr ’zy (in Pahlavi) on left, blundered wrhr ’n (in Pahlavi) on right, fire altar; flanked by two attendants, the left wearing winged crown with korymbos, the right wearing mural crown; pellet below altar. SNS type I1/1(1a), style I; Göbl type I/1; Saeedi –; Sunrise 765 (same dies). Good VF, faint scrape in flames, small edge flaw. Extremely rare.