383, Lot: 352. Estimate $150. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Yazdgird (Yazdgard) III. AD 632-651. AR Drachm (35mm, 3.74 g, 9h). SK (Sakastān) mint. Dated RY 3 (AD 634). Bust right, wearing mural crown with frontal crescent, two wings, and star set on crescent; ribbon on left shoulder, crescent and ribbon on right; stars flanking crown / Fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants; RY to left, mint signature to right; star and crescent flanking flames. Tyler-Smith –; SC Tehran 4342 var. (RY date); Sunrise 1010. Good VF, traces of deposits, minor die rust in margins.

From the K. Grzesiak Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Auctions XXI (26 June 1992), lot 186.