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Magnificent Quality Shapur III Gold Light Dinar
389
Sasanian Kingdom. Shapur III. Gold Light Dinar (4.20 g), AD 383-388. Mint I (‘Kabul’). Bust of Shapur
III right, wearing crown with diadem. Rev. Fire altar with ribbon and bust right in flames; flanked by two
attendants, each wearing flat-topped crown with korymbos; inscription on altar shaft. SNS type II/1b (pl.
25, A6); Göbl type II/6a (Shahpur II); Paruck -; Saeedi -; Sunrise 874 (this coin).
Very Rare.
Lustrous. Mint
State.
$7,000
Ex Bellaria Collection, Triton VII, 12 January 2004,lot 617;
Ex Sotheby’s, 26 March 1973, lot 462.
From the Sunrise Collection: “According to SNS, the crowns on the attendants differentiate the issues of this type as Shahpur
II or III. On this example, their crowns appear as the standard crown of Shahpur III.”
390
Sasanian Kingdom. Shapur III. Gold Dinar (7.31 g), AD 383-388. Sind. Bust of Shapur III right, wearing
flat-topped crown with korymbos. Rev. Fire altar with ribbon and bust right in flames; flanked by two
attendants, each wearing diadem with korymbos. SNS III pl. 145, C9 (same dies); Paruck -; Sunrise 878
(this coin). Bold strike with a golden-orange tone. Nearly Extremely Fine.
$3,000
Ex Peus 392 (May 2007), lot 4406.