401, Lot: 254. Estimate $500. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Vistahm (Bistām). AD 591/2-597. AR Drachm (34mm, 4.12 g, 3h). LD (Ray) mint. Dated RY 5 (AD 595/6). Bust right, wearing mural crown with frontal crescent and pellet-in-crescent set on crescent / Fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants; star and crescent flanking flames. SNS Schaaf 622; Sunrise 976 var. (RY date); Zeno 133837 = Album 18, lot 46. Good VF, toned, traces of double strike and roughness. Rare.