SASANIAN KINGS. Bahram II, 276-293. Drachm (Silver, 26 mm, 4.15 g, 10 h). Bust of Bahram II to right, wearing a winged crown with a great korymbos on top; long beard and thick tufts of curly hair at the back; two ribbons rising from behind head, facing a small bust to left, wearing a headdress with horse’s(?) head; deteriorated legend along the dotted rim running anticlockwise from 11 h to 1 h, ‘mzdysn bgy wrhrʾn MRKAn MRKA ʾyrʾn W ʾnyrʾn MNW ctry MN yzdʾn’ = ‘mazdēsn bay Wahrām šāhān šāh Ērān ud Anērān kē čihr az yaz(a)dān’ (‘The Mazda-worshipping Lord, Bahram, King of Kings of the Iranians and Non-Iranians, whose essence is from the gods’ in Pahlavi). Rev. Fire altar flanked by two regal attendants holding scepters and wearing different crowns; to right and left deteriorated legend, ‘NWRA ZY ˗ wrhrʾn’ = ‘ādur ī Wahrām’ (‘Fire of Bahram’ in Pahlavi); the so-called ‘symbol of the heir’ in the upper field to the left of the flames. Göbl type IV/1. SNS II, type III(5)/1(1a). Rare. Lightly toned and with a wonderful obverse, a beautiful piece. Minor weakness on the reverse, otherwise, extremely fine.