Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 568. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS of PERSIA. Ardashir I, with Shahpur I. 224-241 AD. Æ Unit (11.65 gm). Degraded Pahlavi legend, crowned and cuirassed bust of Ardashir right, facing helmeted and cuirassed bust of Shahpur left / "Fire of Ardashir" in Pahlavi, fire altar with no attendants. Göbl VII/2; cf. Paruck 61; Alram 686; MACW 807; De Morgan pg. 663, 22. VF, brown patina, light smoothing in fields. Rare. ($300)