Watch List notes:

SASANIAN KINGS. Ardaxšīr (Ardashir) III. AD 628-630. AR Drachm (33mm, 4.17 g, 3h). ART (Ardaxšīr-xvarrah) mint. Dated RY 2 (AD 629). Bust right, wearing mural crown with frontal crescent, two wings, and korymbos set on crescent / Fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants; RY to left, mint signature to right; star and crescent flanking flames. SC Tehran 4246-58; Sunrise 993. EF, toned.

Ex Bellaria Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 90, 26 May 2004), lot 154. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular (September 1981), no. 6103.