CNG 108, Lot: 429. Estimate $750. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Vahrām (Bahram) I. AD 273-276. AR Drachm (26.5mm, 4.39 g, 9h). Style A. ‘Ctesiphon’ mint. Bust right, wearing radiate crown with korymbos; pellet above and below diadem ties; double legend behind head / Fire altar; flanked by two attendants, the left wearing winged crown with korymbos, the right wearing mural crown; fravahr on altar shaft. SNS type I(2)/1aa(1a); Göbl type I/1; Paruck 109; Saeedi 120; Sunrise 755( same obv. die). Near EF, light porosity. Very rare with the double legend behind head.

From the Nisa Collection.