435, Lot: 202. Estimate $75. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Šābuhr (Shahpur) I. AD 240-272. AR Drachm (27mm, 4.36 g, 3h). Mint VIII (“Susa”?). Phase 1b, circa AD 244-252/3. Bust right, wearing diadem and mural crown with korymbos and earflaps / Fire altar; flanked by two attendants wearing mural crowns. SNS type IIc/1a, style K and pl. 27, A28 and A29 (same dies); Sunrise –. VF, areas of toning.

Ex Ponterio 148 (9 January 2009), lot 400 (part of).