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379, Lot: 208. Estimate $100.
Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Šābuhr (Shahpur) I. AD 240-272. AR Drachm (27mm, 4.22 g, 3h). Mint I (“Ctesiphon”). Phase 2, circa AD 260-272. Bust right, wearing diadem and mural crown with korymbos / Fire altar; flanked by two attendants wearing mural crowns; pellet to left of flames. SNS type IIc/1b, Style P; Sunrise 741 var. (fravahr to left of flames). Near EF, traces of die rust on obverse.


From the Delbert Carl Highlands Collection, purchased from Worldwide Treasure Bureau.