CNG 108, Lot: 427. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Šābuhr (Shahpur) I. AD 240-272. AV Dinar (22mm, 7.44 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; three 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 740; Triton XXI, lot 587; (same dies); CNG 97, lot 461 (same dies). EF, trace of deposits.