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Dinar - Shapur III
| Issuer | Sasanian Empire |
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| Year | 383-388 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | Bust of Shapur III facing right, wearing the distinctive Sasanian royal crown adorned with a crenellated diadem and surmounted by a large globular hair arrangement encased in a ribbed cap. The king is depicted with a beaded necklace and draped in royal attire, with elaborate jewellery visible at the shoulder. A short Inscriptional Pahlavi legend encircles the bust within the field, reading the royal titulature. The portrait is rendered in the characteristic high-relief hammered style of late Sasanian gold coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Inscriptional Pahlavi |
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Shapur III's reign lasted just five years, ended by his own nobles — according to later sources, he was killed when his tent was collapsed on him while he slept. His coinage is correspondingly scarce. The Göbl I classification places this among the earliest die groupings of the reign, before the type was refined.