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Auction 112  11 Sep 2019
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Lot 409

Estimate: 4000 USD
Price realized: 3250 USD
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SASANIAN KINGS. Šābuhr (Shahpur) I. AD 240-272. AV Dinar (22mm, 7.38 g, 3h). Mint I ("Ctesiphon"). Phase 2, circa AD 260-272. mzdysn bgy šhpwhry MRK'n MRK' 'yr'n MNW ctry MN ya in Pahlavi, bust right, wearing diadem and mural crown with korymbos / nwr'zy in Pahlavi to right, šhpwhry in Pahlavi to left,, fire altar; flanked by two attendants wearing mural crowns; fravahr to left of flames; two pellets to right of altar. SNS type IIc/1b, style P, group b; Göbl type I/1; Paruck –; Saeedi AV5 var. (no pellets); Sunrise 740 var. (same); CNG 111, lot 473 (same dies). Minor die rust, slight double strike on reverse. EF.

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