436, Lot: 312. Estimate $1000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Ohrmazd (Hormizd) I. AD 272-273. AR Drachm (26mm, 3.55 g, 3h). Indeterminate style. bust right, wearing diadem and crown with korymbos, trace of possible taurus symbol on shoulder / flanked by two attendants facing inward, the left, wearing crown with korymbos, raises hand, the right, wearing radiate crown, holds up diadem. SNS type Ia/2a; cf. Sunrise 749-50. Good VF, crystallized surfaces, light graffiti on obverse. Rare.