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Dinar - Shapur I type IIc/1b
| Issuer | Sasanian Empire |
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| Year | 260-272 |
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| Currency | Dinar (224 AD-651 AD) |
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| Obverse script | Pahlavi |
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| Reverse description | A stepped fire altar at center, with flames rising from the altar top, flanked on each side by a standing royal attendant wearing a mural crown, each figure facing inward toward the altar in an attitude of veneration. The attendants are shown in full figure, richly draped, with one hand raised toward the altar; the left attendant holds a staff or sword. A Middle Persian legend appears in the field to either side of the central composition, all enclosed within a beaded border. |
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| Mint | Ctesiphon, Babylonia (modern-day Madain, Iraq) |
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