383, Lot: 348. Estimate $100. Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Ardaxšīr (Ardashir) III. AD 628-630. AR Drachm (33mm, 4.11 g, 3h). AYL mint. Dated RY 2 (AD 629). Bust right, wearing mural crown with frontal crescent, two wings, and korymbos set on crescent; ribbon on left shoulder, crescent and ribbon on right; stars flanking crown / Fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants; RY to left, mint signature to right; star and crescent flanking flames. SC Tehran 4269-72; Sunrise –. VF, areas of weak strike.

From the K. Grzesiak Collection. Ex Berk BBS 72 (4 August 1992), lot 190.