90, Lot: 125. Estimate $500. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS of PERSIA. Hormizd I. 272-273 AD. AR Drachm (25mm, 3.98 gm). Crowned and cuirassed bust right; pellet behind crown / Fire altar, Hormizd to left, Anahit to right. Göbl I/2; Alram 703. Near VF/VF, toned, porous, edge chipped. Rare.

From the Bellaria Collection.

Hormizd, a son of Shahpur I, spent the entirety of his short reign campaigning against the Sogdians in the east. The circumstances of his death are unknown.

The crown type on this issue commemorates his investiture by Anahit.