CNG 102, Lot: 716. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Šābuhr (Shahpur) I. AD 240-272. AV Dinar (22mm, 7.45 g, 3h). Mint I (“Ctesiphon”). Phase Ib, circa AD 244-252/3. mzdysn bgy šhpwhry MRK’n MRK’ ’yr’n MNW ctry MN yad’n in Pahlavi, bust right, wearing diadem and mural crown with korymbos / nwr ’zy (in Pahlavi) on left, šhp hry (in Pahlavi) on right, fire altar; flanked by two attendants wearing mural crowns; trace of taurus symbol on altar shaft. SNS type IIc/1b, style A, indeterminate group; Göbl type I/1; Saeedi AV9 var. (no taurus symbol on shaft); Sunrise –. Good VF, hint of deposits and die rust on obverse, flan slightly wavy. Rare.