343, Lot: 308. Estimate $100. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Šābuhr (Shahpur) I. AD 240-272. AR Drachm (25mm, 4.20 g, 3h). Mint I (“Ctesiphon”). Phase 1b, circa AD 244-252/3. Bust right, wearing diadem and mural crown with korymbos / Fire altar; flanked by two attendants wearing mural crowns; pellets flanking base of altar shaft. SNS type IIc/1a, style A, group d; Göbl type I/1; Saeedi 86; Sunrise –; cf. Zeno 51682 (for type). Good VF, toned, heads of attendants weakly struck, deposit on obverse.