Watch List notes:

SASANIAN KINGS. Shahpur II, 309-379. Dinar (Gold, 18 mm, 7.11 g, 3 h), Mint IX (Kabul), circa 320. Draped bust of Shahpur II to right, wearing mural crown with korymbos; before head, slightly blundered ŠHPWHLY ('Shahpur' in Pahlawi). Rev. Fire altar with crowned bust in flames to right flanked by two attendants; to left and right, traces of a legend. SNS III, pl. 8, 103. Struck from worn dies and with some nicks and scrapes, otherwise, nearly very fine.


From a North German collection of Central Asian gold coins, formed from the 1960s to 1980s.