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383, Lot: 342. Estimate $100.
Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Kavād (Kavādh) I. Second reign, AD 499-531. AR Drachm (30mm, 4.13 g, 3h). MA (Mārh) mint. Dated RY 37 (AD 525/6). Bust right, wearing mural crown with frontal crescent, two ribbons, and korymbos set on crescent, ribbons and crescents on shoulders; star behind head / Fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants; RY to left, mint signature to right; star and crescent flanking flames. SNS type Ic/1b; Sunrise –. Good VF, areas of light toning, die rust on obverse.


From the K. Grzesiak Collection. Ex Pegasi BBS 116 (15 November 1999), lot 145.