Triton XIV, Lot: 528. Estimate $750. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Vistahm (Bistām). AD 591/2-597. AR Drachm (32mm, 4.10 g, 3h). LD (Ray) mint. Dated RY 3 (AD 594/5). Bust right, wearing mural crown with frontal crescent and pellet-in-crescent set on crescent, ribbons and crescents on shoulders; monogram behind head, stars flanking crown, pellets-in-crescents within crescents in margin / Fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants; star and crescent flanking flames, “tlt’” on left, “ld” on right. Göbl type I/1; Mochiri 16; Paruck -; Saeedi 273. Near EF, lightly toned. Rare.

From the William B. Warden, Jr. Collection.