Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1219. 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; ••• to left of ribbons / "Fire of Hormizd" in Pahlavi, fire altar, Hormizd standing right, Anahit standing left, Taurus symbol on altar; \ in inner right field. Cf. Göbl I/2; cf. Paruck 101; cf. Alram 703; cf. MACW 832; cf. De Morgan p. 667, 33. Good VF, find patina, minor area of porosity on obverse. Unpublished with the pellets flanking the ribbons and in reverse field. ($4000)