Jon Baker Collection (Ancient)
Lot 3565 Session 12 (11.30am Friday) Jon Baker Collection (Ancient)
Estimate $300
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $400
SASANIAN KING, Narseh, (293-302), silver drachms (3), (3.920 [illustrated], 3.596, 3.312 [illustrated] grams), obv. bust to right with radiate crown, globe above, with pallisaded headress, rev. fire altar with attendants, plain shaft or dots on shaft, (cf.Sellwood Plate III, No.26, Gobl plate 5, 75-6, M.860, 856 [dots on shaft], 857); Hormazd II, (302-309), similar silver drachms (3) (3.782, 3.502 [illustrated], 3.802 [illustrated] grams), (Sellwood 27, Gobl 83, 85, M.866, 868 [Eastern issue] [2]). Two are holed, otherwise nearly very fine and very scarce. (6)
Ex S.V. Hagley Collection, Noble Numismatics Sale 48 (lot 2864) (four coins with Hagley tickets.
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