CNG 103, Lot: 506. Estimate $200. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Šābuhr (Shahpur) I. AD 240-272. AR Obol (15mm, 0.77 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 attendants wearing diadems (type 3a) and mural crowns. SNS type IIc/1b, style P, group b; cf. Sunrise 742 (hemidrachm). Good VF, toned, minor deposits on reverse.

From the K. Grzesiak Collection. Ex Berk BBS 75 (28 January 1993), lot 193.