383, Lot: 300. Estimate $100. Sold for $85. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Šābuhr (Shahpur) I. AD 240-272. AR Drachm (25mm, 4.29 g, 3h). Mint III (“Hamadan”). 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; pellets flanking altar shaft. SNS type IIc/1a, style E, Group a; Sunrise –. VF, areas of light toning at peripheries, traces of deposits, light roughness.

From the K. Grzesiak Collection. Ex Berk BBS 72 (4 August 1992), lot 185.