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256, Lot: 188. Estimate $200.
Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Vahrām (Bahram) II, with Queen and Prince 4. AD 276-293. AR Drachm (27mm, 4.30 g, 3h). Jugate busts of Bahram and his queen right vis-à-vis bust of prince 4, holding diadem, left; Bahram wearing winged crown with korymbos, queen wearing kolah with boar’s head, prince wearing kolah with eagle’s head and holding diadem / Fire altar with ribbon; flanked by Bahram, who raises hand, and queen, wearing kolah with boar’s head, who holds up diadem; three pellets on altar shaft; fravahr to left of flames, taurus symbol to right. Göbl type X/3; Saeedi 168. Good VF, light roughness and some cleaning scratches.