383, Lot: 301. Estimate $100. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Šābuhr (Shahpur) I. AD 240-272. AR Drachm (26mm, 3.95 g, 4h). 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; two pellets on altar shaft. SNS type IIc/1a, style G; Sunrise –. VF, toned, minor edge split .

From the K. Grzesiak Collection. Ex Berk BBS 59 (1 November 1989), lot 352.