CNG 108, Lot: 410. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PERSIS. Vādfradād (Autophradates) I. 3rd century BC. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 16.24 g, 5h). Istakhr (Persepolis) mint. Head right, with mustache and earring, wearing diadem and kyrbasia / wtprdt (= “Vādfradād”) in Aramaic down outer right, br [...] (= “son of [...]”) in Aramaic down right of altar, prtrk’ zy (= “fratarakā of”) in Aramaic below fire altar, ’lhy’ (= “the gods”) in Aramaic up outer left, fire temple of Ahura-Mazda; above, half-figure of Ahura-Mazda; to left, Vādfradād standing right, bow set on ground before; standard to right. Cf. K&M 2/17 (for type) and see KM Nachträge 2.8.4 (for a similar example overstruck on an issue of Baydad); cf. Alram 533 (for type); cf. De Morgan 12a and pl. XXVII, 19 (same); cf. BMC 1 (same); Sunrise –; CNG 106, lot 543 (same rev. die). EF, toned, overstruck on a tetradrachm of Baydad.