Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 742. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $1650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Bahram II, with Queen and Prince 4. AD 276-293. AR Drachm (4.26 g, 3h). Jugate busts of Bahram, wearing crown, and his queen, wearing bonnet with boar's head, right, facing the bust of his son (Prince 4) left, who wears bonnet with eagle's head and presents wreath / Fire altar with attendants, the one on right presents wreath; fravahr (wreath) and Taurus symbols flanking flames, three pellets on altar shaft. Saeedi 173 var. (no pellets on altar shaft ); Göbl type X/3. EF, toned, file marks and minor test cut on edge. Exceptional strike.