383, Lot: 304. Estimate $100. Sold for $95. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Šābuhr (Shahpur) I. AD 240-272. AR Hemidrachm (22mm, 1.67 g, 3h). Mint I (“Ctesiphon”). Phase 2, circa AD 260-272. 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/1b, style P, Group b; Sunrise 742. Good VF, toned, porous, slightly chipped flan.

From the K. Grzesiak Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Review 18.3 (July-September 1993), no. 139.