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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-WH0001 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Wahmanaz Martan Shah Spur Denomination: Drachm Place made: Asia: Afghanistan, Zabulistan Culture: Western Turkic Date made: 8th Century Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 3.1 Weight (g): 3.33 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Whitting 5591, July 1967, ex R. B. Whitehead. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust in frontal view, bearded; wearing crown with mural elements, a wing to left and right, with crescent and star above; a ribbon emerges from each shoulder; rosette on chest, double band of pellets from shoulder to sternum; hair gathered above each shoulder; double pellet border. Reverse: Bust of Adur (Fire) (?) in frontal view with nimbus of flames; ribbons emerge from shoulders; double pellet border. Inscriptions: Obverse: Inner band: SPUR HUTAP GDH APZUT (Spur, Lord, his glory has increased) Outer Band: PUN SHEM Y YAZDTA SPUR BAG HUTAP WAMANAZ MRTAN MLKA (In the name of God, Spur, his majesty, Lord, Wahnamaz Martan, King) Reverse: Inner band: [In Brahmi] Sri VaLuDeVah (His perfection, King, the Lord) [In Pahlavi] TMANA ZBLYSTAN (Eight, Zabulistan). Outer band: SPUR MANYZDAN (The Lord from the Gods) Bibliography: Vondrovec (2014) Type 216, pp.669. Notes: Chipped at 0 degrees on obverse. |
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| Wahmanaz Martan Shah Spur Turkic | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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