Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 646. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS of PERSIA. Peroz. 457/9-484 AD. AV Dinar (4.08 gm). NB or NY mint. Degraded Pahlavi legend, crowned and cuirassed bust right, ribbons rising from shoulders / "Peroz" in Pahlavi (crude) to left, mint signature to right, fire altar with attendants and ribbon; star and crescent flanking flames. Göbl III/1; Paruck 344 var. (legends); Alram 883; MACW -; De Morgan pg. 705, 172 (pl. LXIII, 3--this coin). Good VF. [See color enlargement on plate 9] ($2000)

Ex John W. Garrett Collection, Part I (Numismatic Fine Arts & Leu, 16-18 May 1984), lot 291.

See Malek, "A Survey of Research on Sasanian Numismatics," in NumChron 1993, pg. 241, for the reattribution of this mintmark from NB to NY.