140, Lot: 101. Estimate $300. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Shahpur II. AD 309-279. Æ Unit (25mm, 7.54 g, 3h). Sakastan mint(?). Bust right wearing crown with korymbos and merlons / Fire altar with attendants, symbols above (crescent over frawahr to left, another frawahr (diadem tie) to right, Ahura Mazdah in flames. Cf. SNS III pl. 21, N2 var. (no symbols or Ahura Mazdah on reverse); Göbl Ia/5 (98) var. (no Ahura Mazdah). VF, brown patina.