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CNG 103, Lot: 512. Estimate $300.
Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Vahrām (Bahram) II, with Queen and Prince 4. AD 276-293. AR Drachm (28mm, 3.94 g, 3h). Style A. ‘Ctesiphon’ mint. 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, presenting wreath and wearing kolah with eagle’s head, left / Fire altar with ribbon; flanked by Bahram and his queen, holding ring; fravahr and taurus symbol flanking flames. SNS type VIIa(1)/5a(1a), Style A; Sunrise 789. VF, toned, hint of deposits, areas of weak strike, slight double strike on reverse.


From the K. Grzesiak Collection. Ex Pegasi BBS 96 (11 March 1996), lot 156.