Watch List notes:

KUSHANO-SASANIANS. Ohrmazd (Hormizd) I Kushanshah. Circa AD 285-300. AV Dinar (32mm, 8.05 g, 10h). Balkh mint. 2nd or 3rd emission. ohoomozoo oozoro oro koshono shohamo shoo[ in Kushano-Bactrian, Ohrmazd standing left, wearing lion-head crown with korymbos and ribbons, flames at shoulders, sacrificing at altar and holding trident; to left, filleted trident standard surmounted by upturned crescent above altar, pellet to right of altar; between legs, pellet above swastika; to inner right, triple pellets below armpit; to outer right, Λ above tamgha; BOXhO (mint signature) down lower right / oor zooam ao Bozo in Kushano-Bactrian, Siva, wearing outstretched diadem ties, standing facing on ground line, holding diadem in outstretched right hand and trident in left; behind, the bull Nandi standing left. Carter 27; Cribb 4; MK 744; Herzfeld –; Donum Burns –; Sunrise 1018. EF, traces of red encrustation in devices. Attractive obverse.


From the Jonathan K. Kern Collection. Ex Triton IX (10 January 2006), lot 1241.