431. SASANIAN KINGS. Pērōz (Fīrūz) I. AD 457/9-484. AV Light Dinar (19mm, 4.15 g, 3h). WH (Veh-Ardaxšīr [?]) mint. Bust right, wearing crown with two wings, frontal crescent, and korymbos set on crescent, ribbon over each shoulder; illegible inscription around / Fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants; star and crescent flanking flames; illegible inscription on left, mint signature on right. SNS type IIIb/1c; Göbl type III/1; Mochiri 736-7; Saeedi AV80; Sunrise 939. EF. ($1500)
432. KUSHANO-SASANIANS. Pērōz (Fīrūz) II. Circa AD 309-335. AV Dinar (32mm, 7.97 g, 12h). 6th emission. Peroz standing left, wearing crown with ribbons and surmounted by globe in crescent, globes at shoulders, sacrificing at altar and holding trident; to left, trident standard above altar, pellet to right of altar; between legs, pellet above 9; to inner right, ˘ below armpit; 0 to outer right; widely spaced pellets in outer margin / Siva, nimbate, standing facing on ground line, holding diadem and trident; behind, the bull Nandi standing left. Carter 29 var. (Brahmi letter below tamgha and no pellets in outer margin); Cribb 6 var. (same); Herzfeld –; MK 711 var. (same); otherwise unpublished in the standard references. EF. ($1000)
ROMAN PROVINCIAL COINAGE
433 434 433. SPAIN, Emerita. Livia. Augusta, AD 14-29. Æ Dupondius (35mm, 21.69 g, 2h). Struck under Tiberius. Draped bust right / Livia seated right, holding grain ears and scepter. ACIP 3405; RPC I 39. Near VF, green patina. Rare. ($500) Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXVII (29 September 1993), lot 257.
434. SPAIN, Italica. Divus Augustus, with Livia. Died AD 14. Æ Dupondius (35mm, 24.85 g, 2h). Struck under Tiberius. Radiate head of Augustus left; star above, thunderbolt before / Livia seated left, holding patera and scepter. ACIP 3334; RPC I 66. VF, dark brown patina, smoothed, some details lightly strengthened. ($400) 112