CNG 103, Lot: 513. Estimate $300. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Vahrām (Bahram) II, with Queen and Prince 4. AD 276-293. AR Drachm (28mm, 3.94 g, 3h). Style A. ‘Ctesiphon’ mint. Jugate busts of Vahrām (Bahram), wearing winged crown with korymbos, and his queen, wearing kolah with boar’s head, right, vis-à-vis bust of Prince 4, presenting wreath and wearing kolah with eagle’s head, left / Fire altar with ribbon; flanked by Bahram and his queen, holding ring; fravahr and taurus symbols flanking flames; three-pellet formation on shaft. SNS type VIIa(1)/5a(1a), Style A; Sunrise 791. VF, hairline flan crack at 5 o’clock of obverse, hint of deposits, light porosity.

From the K. Grzesiak Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 39 (18 September 1996), lot 839.