442, Lot: 869. Estimate $100. Sold for $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Šābuhr (Shahpur) I. AD 240-272. AR Hemidrachm (21mm, 2.05 g, 3h). Mint I (Ctesiphon"). Phase 1b, circa AD 244-252/3. Bust right, wearing diadem and mural crown with korymbos and earflaps / Fire altar; flanked by two attendants wearing mural crowns. SNS Type IIc/1a, Style A, Group F and pl. 22, 30 (same obv. die); Sunrise. VF, toned, minor die rust, slightly ragged edge.

Bought from Spink, 1989. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular XCVII.3 (April 1989), no. 1738.