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151, Lot: 136. Estimate $100.
Sold for $149. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Shahpur II. AD 309-379. PB Dichalkon(?) (23mm, 5.38 g). Crowned and cuirassed bust right, crown with merlons and korymbos; two eight-pointed stars to right / Fire altar with attendants, bust right in flames; two globules in inner fields. Göbl-; Alram -. Fine.

H.M. Malek's review of Sasanian numismatic research ("A Survey of Research on Sasanian Numismatics," in NumChron 1993) lists five denominations of lead coins issued by Shahpur II, but none of the standard references generally include them (but cf. Göbl, Kushan 1263).