442, Lot: 870. Estimate $100. Sold for $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Šābuhr (Shahpur) I. AD 240-272. AR Obol (14mm, 0.71 g, 9h). 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 D and pl. 22, 20-5; Sunrise 735. VF, toned.

Bought from Spink, 1989. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular XCVII.7 (September 1989), no. 4520.