383, Lot: 296. Estimate $50. Sold for $85. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Šābuhr (Shahpur) I. AD 240-272. AR Obol (14mm, 0.59 g, 3h). Mint I (“Ctesiphon”). Phase 1b, circa AD 244-252/3. Bust right, wearing diadem and mural crown with korymbos and earflaps / Fire altar; flanked by two attendants wearing diadems (type 3b) and mural crowns; taurus symbol on altar shaft. SNS type IIc/1a, style A, Group d; Sunrise 736. VF, toned, struck on ragged flan.

From the K. Grzesiak Collection.