Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 400. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Shahpur II. AD 309-379. AR Drachm (4.00 g, 3h). Mint I (Ctesiphon). Struck circa AD 309-320. Bust right, wearing diadem and mural crown with korymbos; letter behind crown / Fire altar with ribbon; flanked by two attendants, each wearing mural crown; fravahr and dynastic symbol flanking flames, pellet on base of altar. SNS III type 1a/1a2, A4; Göbl type Ib/1; Paruck -; Saeedi -. EF, slight die shift on reverse.