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Dinar - Hormizd I
| Issuer | Indo-Sasanian Kingdom |
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| Year | 256-264 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Bactrian (Kushan) |
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| Reverse description | The deity Shiva is depicted standing frontally before his sacred bull Nandi, both figures positioned on a ground line. Shiva is rendered wearing Sasanian royal garments and bearing a Sasanian-style diadem, with top-hair standing erect and the face shown in frontal view. He holds a trident in his left hand and a noose in his right hand, iconographic attributes consistent with Shaivite tradition as adopted in Kushano-Sasanian coinage. A Kushan dynastic legend borders the design in the field surrounding the figures. The synthesis of Sasanian regalia with Hindu iconography reflects the syncretic religious and artistic program characteristic of this coinage. |
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Hormizd I ruled for less than two years before dying in 270 AD, making his coinage among the briefest produced under any Sasanian monarch. The Indo-Sasanian issues attributed to his reign reflect the eastern frontier administration rather than the imperial mint at Ctesiphon, and Göbl's classification work on these dinars remains the baseline reference — Herzfeld's earlier numbering, used here, predates the more granular die studies that followed.