CNG 100, Lot: 163. Estimate $3000. Sold for $11000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Vahrām (Bahram) II, with Queen and Prince 4. AD 276-293. AV Dinar (21mm, 7.29 g, 3h). mzdysn bgy wrhr’n MRK’n MRK’ ’yr’n W ’n’yr’n MNW c[t]ry MN yzd’n in Pahlavi, jugate busts of Vahrām (Bahram), wearing winged crown with korymbos, and his queen, wearing kolah with boar’s head, right, vis-à-vis bust of Prince 4, wearing kolah with eagle’s head, left / NWR’ wrhr[’]n in Pahlavi, fire altar; flanked by two attendants facing outward, each wearing winged crown with korymbos; fravahr to left of flames. SNS type VIa(1a)/2(1a), A4; Göbl type VII/2a; Paruck –; Saeedi AV26; Sunrise –. Good VF, toned, minor lamination on obverse and light scratch on altar shaft. Very rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Joel Malter, November 1993.