90, Lot: 130. Estimate $200. Sold for $335. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS of PERSIA. Bahram I. 273-276 AD. AR Drachm (26mm, 4.42 gm). Crowned and cuirassed bust right; star before crown / Fire altar with attendants; uncertain legend above. Göbl I/1; Alram 707. Fine/VF, soft obverse strike, double struck, slight bend to flan. Extremely rare, one of two known with obverse star (the other: Sotheby's, 24-25 March 1988, lot 95).

From the Bellaria Collection. Ex Malter 55 (7 November 1993), lot 408.

See lot 126 for notes on the reign and coinage of this king.