Watch List notes:

SASANIAN KINGS. Ohrmazd (Hormizd) II. AD 303-309. AV Dinar (20mm, 6.86 g, 3h). Bust right, wearing eagle crown with korymbos / Fire altar with ribbons and bust right in flames; flanked by two attendants, the left wearing winged crown, the right wearing mural crown, both with korymbos. SNS type Ia/2d; cf. Göbl type I/1b (drachm); Saeedi AV38 var. (crown of attendant on right without korymbos); Sunrise –; CNG 73, 564 (same dies). VF, toned, minor field marks, evidence of having been placed in a bezel. Very rare with bust right in flames.


Ex Triton XIII (5 January 2010), lot 277; Classical Numismatic Group 76/1 (12 September 2007), lot 972.