Triton XXI, Lot: 589. Estimate $10000.
Sold for $10500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SASANIAN KINGS. Vahrām (Bahram) I. AD 273-276. AV Dinar (22.5mm, 7.42 g, 3h). Style B. ‘Hamadan’ mint.
mzdysn bgy wrhr’n MRK’ ’yr’n MN yzd’n in Pahlavi, bust right, wearing winged crown with
korymbos /
nwr ’zy (in Pahlavi) to right,
wrhr ’n (in Pahlavi) to left, fire altar; flanked by two attendants, the left wearing winged crown with
korymbos, the right wearing mural crown;
fravahr and taurus symbol flanking flames; triple pellets on altar shaft. SNS type I1/1ab(1a), style B; Göbl type I/1; Saeedi –; Sunrise –. EF, light roughness, right attendant’s head on reverse weakly struck. Rare.
