379, Lot: 218. Estimate $100. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Šābuhr (Shahpur) III. AD 383-388. AR Drachm (26mm, 4.18 g, 3h). Mint VI (AW [Ohrmazd-Ardaxšīr]). Bust right, wearing flat-topped crown with korymbos / Fire altar with ribbons and bust right in flames; flanked by two attendants, each wearing flat-topped crown with korymbos; retrograde awin Pahlavi on altar shaft. SNS type Ib2/1b (cf. pl. 27, 21 [for rev.]); Sunrise –. EF, cleaning scratches in obverse field.

From the Delbert Carl Highlands Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 58 (19 September 2001), lot 834 (part of); Peus 315 (28 April 1986), lot 289.