Watch List notes:

SASANIAN KINGS. Vistahm (Bistām). AD 591/2-597. AR Drachm (34mm, 4.12 g, 3h). LD (Ray) mint. Dated RY 3 (AD 593/4). Bust right, wearing mural crown with frontal crescent and pellet-in-crescent set on crescent, ribbons and crescents on shoulders; stars flanking crown; pellets-in-crescents within crescents in margin / Fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants; star and crescent flanking flames; RY date to left, mint signature to right. SNS Schaaf 620; Sunrise 976 var. (RY date). EF, traces of green deposits, areas of die rust and slight double strike on obverse .


From the K. Grzesiak Collection. Ex Pegasi V (4 June 2001), lot 230.