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⅙ Dinar - Ardashir I type III2/2
| Issuer | Sasanian Empire |
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| Year | 224-241 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Diademed and bareheaded bust of Ardashir I facing right, wearing a close-fitting headdress surmounted by a korymbos and lacking earflaps, secured by a diadem of type R. Two pellets flank the headdress on either side in the field, rendered in the distinctive early Sasanian hammered style with bold relief. |
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| Reverse script | Middle Persian (Pahlavi) |
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Ardashir I founded the Sasanian dynasty by defeating the last Arsacid king, Artabanus IV, at the Battle of Hormozdgan in 224 AD — the same year this coinage type begins. The fractional dinar denominations were struck in notably small quantities relative to the full dinar, and surviving examples in any condition are genuinely scarce. Göbl's classification of this as type III2/2 places it within the later phase of Ardashir's coinage, after successive die revisions refined the royal image toward the more standardized portrait conventions his successors would inherit.