Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 596. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS of PERSIA. Bahram II, with Queen and Prince 4. 276-293 AD. AV Dinar (7.37 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 bust of his son (Prince 4) left, who wears a bonnet with an eagle's head / Degraded Pahlavi legend, fire altar with attendants; three pellets and fravahr symbol (wreath) flanking flames. Cf. Göbl VII/2; Paruck -; Alram -; MACW -; De Morgan -. Good VF, small edge mark at obverse 12 o'clock. There are apparenly no published dinars of Göbl type VII/2. [See color enlargement on plate 8] ($4000)

Ex Giessener Münzhandlung 36 (8 April 1987), lot 330.