383, Lot: 307. Estimate $100. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Vahrām (Bahram) I. AD 273-276. AR Drachm (26mm, 4.27 g, 3h). Style A/c. ‘Ctesiphon’ mint. Bust right, wearing diadem and radiate crown with korymbos / Fire altar; flanked by two attendants, the left wearing crown with korymbos, the right with mural crown; fravahr to right of flames. SNS type I(1)/1ab(1a), Style A/c; Sunrise 758. Near EF, areas of toning in devices, hairlines, holed and plugged.

From the K. Grzesiak Collection. Ex Houston FPL 154 (January-February 1998), no. 15.