SASANIAN KINGDOM: Khusro II, 591-628, AR drachm (3.94g), SK (Sijistan), year 4, G-209var, unusual local design, carelessly engraved regnal year, choice EF, RR. The style is totally different from regular issues of this mint & ruler, and there appears to have been something engraved in the second quadrant of the obverse margin, later erased by the engraver, hence the raised area where the text might have been. It is likely issued in the...
Numismatic Auction #18
By: Stephen Album Rare Coins
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Jan 16, 2014 America/Los_Angeles
Stephen Album Rare Coins Numismatic Auction #18
Thursday Jan 16, 2014 09:00 to Saturday Jan 18, 2014 19:00 America/Los_Angeles
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Lot #52 - ancient
SASANIAN KINGDOM: Kavad II, 628, AR drachm (4.11g), BYSh (Bishapur), year 2, G-223, lovely strike, choice VF.
Lot #53 - ancient
SASANIAN KINGDOM: Kavad II, 628, AR drachm (4.08g), AYRAN (Hulwan), year 2, G-223, VF to EF, R.
Lot #54 - ancient
SASANIAN KINGDOM: Kavad II, 628, AR drachm (4.13g), NY (Nihawand), year 2, G-223, bold strike, EF.
Lot #55 - ancient
SASANIAN KINGDOM: Ardashir III, 628-630, AR drachm (3.28g), BN (probably Bamm), year 2, G-225, clipped to later standard, VF, R.
Lot #56 - ancient
SASANIAN KINGDOM: Ardashir III, 628-630, AR drachm (3.76g), GD (Jayy), year 1, G-225, 1st type, without wings, choice VF to EF.
Lot #57 - ancient
SASANIAN KINGDOM: Ardashir III, 628-630, AR drachm (3.89g), AY (Susa), year 2, G-226, 2nd type, with wings, EF.
Lot #58 - ancient
SASANIAN KINGDOM: Ardashir III, 628-630, AR drachm, AYRAN (Hulwan), year 2, G-226, interesting graffiti in reverse margin, VF.
Lot #59 - ancient
SASANIAN KINGDOM: Ardashir III, 628-630, AR drachm (4.12g), RD (Rayy), year 2, G-226, 2nd type, with wings, bold strike, choice EF to About Unc.
Lot #60 - ancient
SASANIAN KINGDOM: Ardashir III, 628-630, AR drachm (4.13g), WYHC (the Treasury), year 2, G-226, 2nd type, with wings, bold strike, choice EF.
Lot #61 - ancient
SASANIAN KINGDOM: Hormizd V, 631-632, AR drachm (4.02g), MY (Mishan), year 2, G-230, choice EF, R.
Lot #62 - ancient
SASANIAN KINGDOM: Hormizd V, 631-632, AR drachm (4.10g), WYHC (the Treasury mint), year 2, G-230, bold strike, choice EF, R.
Lot #63 - ancient
SASANIAN KINGDOM: Hormizd V, 630-631, AR drachm (3.49g), WYHC (the Treasury mint), year 2, G-230, EF, R.
Lot #64 - ancient
SASANIAN KINGDOM: Hormizd V, 631-632, AR drachm (4.25g), WYHC (the Treasury mint), year 2, G-230, lovely strike, VF to EF, R.
Lot #65 - ancient
SASANIAN KINGDOM: Khusraw III, 629-631, AR drachm (4.19g), WYHC (the Treasury mint), year 2, G-232, bust without beard, choice EF to About Unc, R.
Lot #66 - ancient
SASANIAN KINGDOM: Yazdigerd III, 632-651, AR drachm, SK (Sijistan), year 3, G-234, EF.
Lot #67 - ancient
SASANIAN KINGDOM: Yazdigerd III, 632-651, AR drachm (3.76g), GRM ("warm Kirman"), year 10, G-235, TS-28/29, VF, RR.
Lot #68 - ancient
SASANIAN KINGDOM: Yazdigerd III, 632-651, AR drachm (3.00g), BN, year 19, G-235, Tyler-Smith-68var, BN mint is possibly the city of Bamm in Kirman province, triplet of pellets at 8h30 in obverse margin, but without star behind the king's crown, clipped down to later Umayyad standard, lovely VF, R.
Lot #69 - ancient
SASANIAN KINGDOM: Yazdigerd III, 632-651, AR drachm (3.59g), BN (perhaps Bamm), year 20, G-235, TS-107 ff, choice EF, R.
Lot #70 - ancient
SASANIAN KINGDOM: Yazdigerd III, 632-651, AR drachm (2.90g), GRM ("warm Kirman"), year 20, G-235, TS-94 ff, clipped down to post-reform Umayyad standard, VF, R.
Lot #71 - ancient
SASANIAN KINGDOM: Yazdigerd III, 632-651, AR drachm (4.10g), BN (perhaps Bamm), year 32, G-235, TS—, posthumous issue, probably struck by the Arabs in the Kirman province, but without bism Allah, EF, RRR.
Lot #72 - ancient
SASANIAN KINGDOM:LOT of 12 silver drachms + 2 copper coins: Narses (Fine, ugly mount), Shahpur III (fourrée, scruffy VG), Peroz (5 pcs., all VF-EF), Kavad I (VF), Khusro II (Fine), one Tokharistan imitation of Peroz (Good), another an imitation of Hormizd IV (F-VF, slightly chipped), one rare Hephthalite (Poor), one copper square Indo-Scythian hemiobol (Fine, some corrosion), and one Hindu Shahi copper coin (Fine), lot of 14 pieces.
Lot #73 - ancient
SASANIAN KINGDOM:LOT of 6 silver drachms, one of Varahran IV, one of Yazdigerd I, and 4 of Khusro II (three of which have Hephthalite countermarks in the obverse margin), average VF, lot of 6 pieces.
Lot #74 - ancient
SASANIAN KINGDOM:LOT of 6 Sasanian coins: Ardashir I (copper unit, Göbl-19, VG), Shahpur I (copper unit, G-26, scruffy VG and fractional, G-27, VG), Varahran IV (silver drachm, eastern issue, G-141, Fine), and Peroz (silver drachm, 2 examples, G-171 & G-176, both VF-EF), lot of 6 pieces.
Lot #75 - ancient
CHARACENE: Attambelos I, ca. 47-24 BC, BI tetradrachm (10.91g), year 281 (32/31 BC), Hill-16/19, diademed head right / Herakles seated left on rock, holding club, very clear date below reverse, very light porosity, as almost always on this type, VF.
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