Triton XIV, Lot: 495. Estimate $300. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Šābuhr (Shahpur) III. AD 383-388. AR Drachm (24mm, 3.71 g, 3h). “Western Group” mint. Bust right, wearing flat-topped crown decorated with palmettes in arches and surmounted with korymbos / Fire altar with ribbons and bust right in flames; flanked by two attendants, each wearing flat-topped crown with korymbos; “l’st” on altar shaft. SNS type Ib1/1b; Göbl type I/1; cf. Paruck 268-269; cf. Saeedi 221-226. EF, lightly toned.

From the William B. Warden, Jr. Collection.