Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 874. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS of PERSIA. Shahpur II. 309-379 AD. AV Dinar (7.04 gm). Uncertain eastern mint. Crowned and cuirassed bust right; mint signature(?) before / Degraded Pahlavi legend, fire altar without attendants; two pellets to either side of central column. Göbl, Kushan 1352/2; Göbl Ia/7; Alram 823. VF, matte surfaces from burial, lamination on reverse. ($750)

The mint signature (if that is what it is) on these issues has had various interpretations by numismatists, with the majority opinion behind either RHYC (Göbl) or SRI (Senior). If the signature is SRI, then it is certainly an issue from the mint of Sind.