Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 4590 Session 16 (9.30am Friday) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $250
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SOLD $650
SASANIAN, kings of Persia, Bahram II, with Queen and Prince 4, (276-293 A.D.), silver drachm, (4.15 g), obv. degraded Pahlavi legend, jugate busts of Bahram, crowned and cuirassed, and his queen, wearing a bonnet with a boar's head and cuirass, right, facing the cuirassed bust of his son (Prince 4) left, who wears a bonnet with an eagle's head and presents wreath, rev. degraded Pahlavi legend, fire altar with attendants, the right one presents wreath, three pellets on central column, fravahr (wreath) and taurus symbols flanking flames, (Gobl X/3, Paruck 149 var. (no pellets), Alram 744, MACW 847, De Morgan p.673, 51). Toned, good very fine, rare.
Ex Decades Collection and CNG Triton VII, 13-14 January 2004 (lot 600) and previously from Sotheby's, London, 21 July 1983, (lot 86).
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