Triton XIV, Lot: 480. Estimate $400. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Šābuhr (Shahpur) II. AD 309-379. AR Drachm (25mm, 3.96 g, 3h). Mint I (“Ctesiphon”). Bust right, wearing mural crown with korymbos / Fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants, each wearing mural crown with korymbos; fravahr symbol on altar shaft. SNS type Ib1/3a; MK 1253; Göbl type Ib/5; cf. Paruck 205; cf. Saeedi 199. EF, toned, minor porosity.

From the William B. Warden, Jr. Collection.