Ex Sunrise Collection

Triton XXII, Lot: 484. Estimate $3000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Šābuhr (Shahpur) III. AD 383-388. AV Dinar (19mm, 7.32 g, 3h). Sind mint. Bust right, wearing flat-topped crown decorated with palmettes, and korymbos; śri and uncertain letter to right; pseudo-legend around / Fire altar with ribbons and bust right in flames; flanked by two attendants, each wearing close-fitting cap with korymbos; pseudo-legends above. SNS III –; Göbl –; Paruck –; Saaedi –: Sunrise 879 (this coin). Good VF, traces of deposits in devices on obverse. Extremely rare.

Ex Sunsrise Collection (The New York Sale XXXVII, 5 January 2016), lot 540; Triton VI (14 January 2003), 524; Sunrise Collection 879.