383, Lot: 302. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Šābuhr (Shahpur) I. AD 240-272. AR Drachm (26mm, 3.56 g, 3h). Mint I (“Ctesiphon”). Phase 1c, circa AD 252/3-2258/9. Bust right, wearing diadem and mural crown with korymbos and earflaps / Fire altar; flanked by two attendants wearing diadems (type 3b) and mural crowns. SNS type IIc/1a, style O, Group a; Sunrise –. VF, toned, a few light scratches under tone.

From the K. Grzesiak Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXIX (30 March 1994), lot 346.