CNG 97, Lot: 461. Estimate $3000. Sold for $11000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Šābuhr (Shahpur) I. AD 240-272. AV Dinar (22mm, 7.20 g, 3h). Mint I (“Ctesiphon”). Phase 2, circa AD 260-272. Bust right, wearing diadem and mural crown with korymbos / Fire altar; flanked by two two attendants wearing mural crowns; fravahr to left of flames. SNS type IIc/1b, style P, group b; Göbl type I/1; Saeedi AV5; Sunrise 739/740 (obv./rev.). EF, riverine patina, showing signs of water erosion, a couple of edge bruises and edge scrapes.