383, Lot: 316. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Šābuhr (Shahpur) III. AD 383-388. AR Drachm (26mm, 3.70 g, 3h). Mint III. Bust right, wearing flat-topped crown with korymbos / Fire altar with ribbons and bust right in flames; flanked by two attendants, each wearing flat-topped crown with korymbos; trace of l’st in Pahlavi on altar shaft; pellet at base of altar. SNS type Ib1/1b; Sunrise –. Good VF, minor lamination in korymbos, die break and light die rust on reverse.

From the K. Grzesiak Collection. Ex Pegasi BBS 101 (16 June 1997), lot 151.