383, Lot: 344. Estimate $100. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Ohrmazd (Hormizd) IV. AD 579-590. AR Drachm (33mm, 4.04 g, 3h). ST (Istakhr) mint. Dated RY 10 (AD 589). Bust right, wearing mural crown with frontal crescent and korymbos set on crescent, ribbons and crescents on shoulders; stars flanking crown / Fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants; star and crescent flanking flames. SC Tehran 1269; Sunrise –. Good VF, toned, some light cleaning scratches in obverse margin. Possibly overstruck on an uncertain undertype.

From the K. Grzesiak Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 45 (18 March 1998), lot 715.