90, Lot: 111. Estimate $50. Sold for $108. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS of PERSIA. Ardashir I. 224-241 AD. Æ 16mm (3.04 gm). Uncertain mint. Crowned and cuirassed bust right; pellet-in-crescent before / Fire altar with no attendants; pellets flanking central column. Alram, Beginning, -; cf. Göbl III/2/2; Alram 676; Vasmer, "Unpublished Sassanian Coins in the Ermitage, Leningrad," NumChron 1928, 4 var. (no obverse symbol). VF, brown patina. Rare.

From the Bellaria Collection.

See lot 100 for notes on the reign and coinage of this king.