Watch List notes:

SASANIAN KINGS. Ardaxšīr (Ardashir) III. AD 628-630. AR Drachm (33mm, 4.12 g, 3h). NY (Nēhāvand[?]) mint. Dated RY 2 (AD 629). Bust right, wearing mural crown with frontal crescent, two wings, and korymbos set on crescent; ribbon on left shoulder, crescent and ribbon on right; stars flanking crown star-in-crescents in margin / Fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants; star and crescent flanking flames; RY date to left, mint signature to right; star-in-crescents in margin. SC Tehran 4301 (same rev. die); SNS Schaaf 681; Sunrise –. EF, minor areas of weak strike, spot of copper deposit in left field of obverse. Rare mint.


From the K. Grzesiak Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Auctions XIV (20 March 1991), lot 233.