Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 600. Estimate $300. Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004. Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SASANIAN KINGS of PERSIA. Bahram II, with Queen and Prince 4. 276-293 AD. AR Drachm (4.15 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 and presents wreath / Degraded Pahlavi legend, fire altar with attendants, the right one presents wreath; three pellets on central column,
fravahr (wreath) and taurus symbols flanking flames. Göbl X/3; Paruck 149 var. (no pellets); Alram 744; MACW 847; De Morgan pg. 673, 51. Toned, good VF. [See color enlargement on plate 10] ($300)
Ex Sotheby's (21 July 1983), lot 86.