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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 594. Estimate $200. 
Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004. 
Sold For $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS of PERSIA. Bahram II, with Queen and Prince 2(?). 276-293 AD. AR Obol (0.65 gm). Degraded Pahlavi legend, jugate busts of Bahram, crowned and cuirassed, and his queen, wearing a bonnet with a boar's head and cuirass, right facing the cuirassed of his son (Prince 2) left, who wears a bonnet with a horned horse's(?) head / Degraded Pahlavi legend, fire altar with attendants; fravahr symbol (wreath) to left of flames. Göbl -/1; Paruck -; Alram -; MACW -; De Morgan -. Toned, good VF. Apparently unpublished. ($200)

Ex Peus 328 (2-4 May 1990), lot 331.

It is possible that the prince is wearing a bonnet with a boar's head, in which case he would be Prince 3 (also apparently unpublished).