456, Lot: 273. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Kavād (Kavādh) I. Second reign, AD 499-531. Æ Pashiz (13mm, 0.49 g, 3h). ST (Istahkr) mint. Uncertain RY date. Bust right, wearing mural crown with frontal crescent, two ribbons, and korymbos set on crescent, ribbons and crescents on shoulders; stars flanking head; star-in-crescents in margin / Fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants, star and crescent flanking flames. SNS type Ib/1a. Brown surfaces, light roughness. VF.