Triton XVIII, Lot: 865. Estimate $1000. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Kavād (Kavādh) II. AD 628. AR Drachm (31mm, 4.16 g, 3h). AHM (Hamadan) mint. Dated RY 2 (AD 628). kw’ty in Pahlavi to left, pylwcy in Pahlavi to right, bust right, wearing mural crown with frontal crescent and korymbos set on crescent; ribbon on left shoulder, crescent and ribbon on right; stars flanking crown; star-in-crescents in margin / Fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants; star and crescent flanking flames; RY date on left, AHM in Palavi (mint) on right; star-in-crescents in margin. Malek, Kavad, 1-8 (this coin unrecorded); Göbl type I/1; Mochiri 429; Paruck -; Saeedi –; Sunrise –. EF, lustrous.