448, Lot: 271. Estimate $100. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Šābuhr (Shahpur) I. AD 240-272. AR Drachm (28mm, 3.89 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; fravahr and taurus symbol flanking flames. SNS type IIc/1b, Style P; Sunrise 741. Deposits, crystallized surfaces, ragged edge. Good VF.

Ex Ponterio 93 (13 March 1998), lot 491.