Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 750. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $207. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. temp. Khosrau II. AD 591-628. Æ Follis (8.93 g, 9h). Imitating a Byzantine follis of Heraclius with Heraclius Constantine from Constantinople mint, dated RY 13 (621/2). Uncertain Syrian mint. Struck during the Sasanian occupation of Syria, 610-629. Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine standing facing, each crowned and holding cross-tipped scepter; cross above / Large M; cross above, A/N/N X/III across field; Δ//ЄON. Cf. SB 805 (for prototype); Pottier Class IV(2), 58.1; MIB X41 (same dies). VF, black patina with earthen encrustation.