Triton XXI, Lot: 587. Estimate $5000.
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SASANIAN KINGS. Šābuhr (Shahpur) I. AD 240-272. AV Dinar (22mm, 7.39 g, 3h). Mint I (“Ctesiphon”). Phase 2, circa AD 260-272.
mzdysn bgy šhpwhry MRK’n MRK’ ’yr’n MNW ctry MN yzd’n in Pahlavi, bust right, wearing diadem and mural crown with
korymbos; pellets in field to left /
nwr’zy in Pahlavi to right,
šhpwhry in Pahlavi to left,, fire altar; flanked by two attendants wearing mural crowns;
fravahr to left of flames. SNS type IIc/1b, style P, group b; Göbl type I/1; Saeedi AV5; Sunrise 739 var. (no pellets on obv., no
fravahr on rev.); CNG 97, lot 461 (same dies). EF.
