Who won that Bahram II today?

Yes

 

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@ernstk
I'm quite sure this vitriol is unwarranted. It's not like you _deserve_ to win an auction just by wanting the coin. You deserve to win by spending money. Cruel, cruel world, I know...

PS. And I'm saying that as someone who thinks very hard before spending more than $200.

 

Thank you, @fomovore, for your valued perspective. Some of us took most of our lives to get as far as $200.
To paraphrase an old American advertisment, 'The Disease Is Entitlement. The Answer Is ...for one, Growing (expl. del.) Up.'

 

Eh, not just Bahram II has been faked. Its not a unique coin. At some point, you have to rely on researchers and published collections. The SNS series has some of the most authoritative authors of it, using extensive collections. If it is published in this series, I would trust it. Same with Gobl. Unfortunately Gobl's Sassanian book is not nearly as thorough as his Hunnic series.

 

Yes I trust SNS but a forger can create a die transfer fake which would match SNS examples exactly then how would you know? The recent sasanian fakes are quite good. Here is one of such very good fake I would be easily fool by this but have no doubt it is a fake. That is why I care and pay for provenance because 20 years ago fakes were not that advanced like this.