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102, Lot: 92. Estimate $400.
Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS of PERSIA. Hormizd II. 303-309 AD. AR Hemidrachm (20mm, 1.99 gm). Crowned bust right; pellet before / Fire altar with attendants and ribbon, bare-headed bust left in flames; Pahlavi letters on central column (RDY=Rayy mint?). Cf. Göbl I/1a (for type); Malek, "A Survey of Research on Sasanian Numismatics," in NumChron 1993, pg. 234 and pl. 37, 3 (this coin). VF, light scratches. Unique.

From the Bellaria Collection. Ex Stephen Album List 98 (June 1993), lot 67.