Triton XXI, Lot: 594. Estimate $10000. Sold for $25000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Šābuhr (Shahpur) III. AD 383-388. AV Dinar (19.5mm, 7.13 g, 3h). Mint IX (“Merv”). šhphr MRK’N M’ in blundered Pahlavi, bust right, wearing flat-topped crown with korymbos / nwr in blundered Pahlavi on right, šh in blundered Pahlavi on left, fire altar with ribbons. SNS type Ib1/2 and pl. 32, N2 = Zeno 20845 = Triton VII, lot 626 (same dies); Göbl type I/4; Saeedi AV61 (same dies); Sunrise –. EF. Third recorded example and the finest of the three.

From the Nisa Collection.