SASANIAN KINGS. Šābuhr (Shahpur) III. AD 383-388. AV Dinar (19.5mm, 7.13 g, 3h). Mint IX (“Merv”). EF.

Triton XXVII
Lot: 447. Estimated: $ 10 000

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SASANIAN KINGS. Šābuhr (Shahpur) III. AD 383-388. AV Dinar (19.5mm, 7.13 g, 3h). Mint IX (“Merv”). šhphr MRK’N M’ in blundered Pahlavi, bust right, wearing flat-topped crown with korymbos / nwr in blundered Pahlavi on right, šh in blundered Pahlavi on left, fire altar with ribbons. SNS type Ib1/2 and pl. 32, N2 = Zeno 20845 = Triton VII, lot 626 (same dies); Göbl type I/4; Saeedi AV61 (same dies); Sunrise –. Tiny test cut on edge. EF. Extremely rare; the third, and finest, recorded example.

Ex Nisa Collection (Triton XXI, 9 January 2018), lot 594.


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