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Dinar - Shapur I
| Issuer | Sasanian Empire |
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| Year | 260-267 |
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| Weight | 7.34 g |
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| Obverse script | Inscriptional Pahlavi |
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| Reverse description | Two crowned royal attendants, each wearing belted court dress and armed with a sword at the hip, stand as guardians flanking a tall, stepped Zoroastrian fire altar rising from a stepped base, its flame rendered with multiple stylized tongues. The figure to the left holds a barsom bundle, while the figure to the right grasps a long lance or sceptre; both face inward toward the central altar in a posture of ritual devotion. A short Inscriptional Pahlavi legend appears in the right field. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded border, consistent with Göbl's early Shapur I typology. |
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| Mint | Ctesiphon (Mint I), Babylonia, modern-day Madain, Iraq |
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