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CNG 88, Lot: 647. Estimate $2000.
Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Šābuhr (Shahpur) II. AD 309-379. AV Dinar (21mm, 7.39 g, 3h). Sind mint. Crowned bust right / Fire altar with ribbons and no attendants; inverted fravahr to left of altar shaft. Cf. SNS III pl. 145, C1-2; Paruck -; cf. Senior, Coinage 1; cf. MK 1352; cf. Spink 182, 8 (all refs with symbol in obv. field), otherwise unpublished. VF, struck with worn dies. Apparently unique for this ruler from this mint without the obverse symbol and with the fravahr.