★ Lovely strike for the issue. Rare. ★

SASANIAN KINGS. Kavad II. 628 AD. AR Drachm (4.17 gm; 33 mm). Year 2, mint "AIRAN" (Susa). Bust right, wearing mural crown with frontal crescent 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; star-in-crescents in margin. Malek, Kavad 31-50; Göbl type I/1 (pl 14, 226); Mochiri 925; Paruck -; Saeedi 290; Sunrise 991. Lovely strike for the issue. Choice FDC. Fully lustrous. Rare.