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Numismatics ID number: BIRBI-S0015 Object type: Coin Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Artashir I Denomination: Tetradrachm Culture: Sasanian Date made: 224-242 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 2.50 Weight (g): 14.26 Axis (degrees): 270.00 Provenance: Whitting 4065. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Artashir, facing r., bearded, with Parthian crown and flaps, with korymbos, single pellet border. Reverse: Fire altar, with round column, altar slab with pellet band; two lower censors l. and r. of altar; fire atop altar; single pellet border. Inscriptions: Obverse: MZDYSN ARTHŠTR MLKA (MAZDAYASNA ARTHSHTIR MALKA/Mazda-worshipping Artashir, King) Reverse: NURA ZI ARTHŠTR (Fire of Artashir) Bibliography: SNS 1.Typ IIh/3a
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| Artashir I Sasanian 242 | |
| Whitting, Philip David British 1903 1988 | |
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