Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 547. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Shahpur III. AD 383-388. AR Drachm (26mm, 4.20 g, 3h). Mint III. Crowned bust right; korymbos decorated with eagle facing, head left; triple pellets of either side / Fire altar with attendants and ribbons; bust right in flames; uncertain legend (L’STY?) in Pahlavi on altar shaft. SNS Type Ib1/1b, A13; S. Ahghari, “New Sasanian Drachm Type Discovered,” The Celator (December 2007), p. 37 (this coin); Göbl type I/1. VF, toned. Extremely rare; the only other published specimen came from the Nezak Hoard.