Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1216. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $3200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

[Medieval] SASANIAN KINGS. Hormizd I. 272-273 AD. AR Drachm (4.12 g, 3h). Degraded Pahlavi legend, crowned bust right; triple pellets left, and single pellet right, flanking ribbons / "Fire of Hormizd" in Pahlavi, fire altar, Hormizd standing right, Mithra standing left, holding diadem in raised right hand, Taurus symbol on altar; single pellet left, double pellets right, flanking flame. Göbl I/1 var. (triple pellets on shoulder); cf. Paruck 99; cf. Alram 702; MACW 833 var. (no pellets); cf. De Morgan p. 667, 33. EF, traces of encrustation. Rare type, unpublished with the pellets flanking the ribbons. ($4000)