Sale: Triton X, Lot: 496. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Ardashir I, with Shahpur I. AD 223/4-240. Æ Unit (11.65 g, 3h). Uncertain mint. Phase 3b, AD 233/4-238/9. 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. SNS I Type VIII/3a; Göbl VII/2; Alram 686. VF, brown patina, small hairline flan crack, minor smoothing in fields. Rare.

Ex Bellaria Collection (Triton VII, 13 January 2004), lot 568.