Watch List notes:

KUSHANO-SASANIANS. Ohrmazd (Hormizd) I Kushanshah. Circa AD 285-300. AV Dinar (30mm, 7.84 g, 12h). Balkh mint. 2nd or 3rd emission. ohromozoo oozoro orko koshono shohro[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. Cf. Carter 27 (for type); Cribb –; cf. MK 745 (for type); Herzfeld –; Donum Burns, Tafel 11, 747B; Sunrise –; NAC 77, lot 137; Gorny & Mosch 152, lot 1590 (same obv. die). EF, hairline flan crack, slight double strike on reverse.


From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich.