CNG 112, Lot: 414. Estimate $7500.
Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SASANIAN KINGS. Vahrām (Bahram) II. AD 276-293. AV Dinar (22mm, 7.41 g, 3h). Style I. ‘HWPY/HRPY’ (Herat?) mint. Blundered
mzdysn bgy wrhr’n MRK’ ’yr’n MN yzd’n in Pahlavi, bust right, wearing winged crown with
korymbos / Blundered
nwr ’zy (in Pahlavi) on left, blundered
wrhr ’n (in Pahlavi) on right, fire altar; flanked by two attendants, the left wearing winged crown with
korymbos, the right wearing mural crown. SNS type I(1)/1(1a), style I (unrecorded there as a dinar); Göbl type I/1; Paruck –; Saeedi –; Triton XXI, lot 591 (same dies); Sunrise Collection (New York Sale XXXVII), lot 422 (same dies); Album 26, lot 59 (same dies, but a slightly later die state). Minor weakness at periphery, a few minor marks. Superb EF. Well centered strike with traces of underlying luster. Fine style. Extremely rare.
