At the time of Ardashir, there were only four established mints: Stakhr, Hamadan, Ctesiphon, and Marw. I see nothing "wrong" about the korymbos....
Not flowers, but a bust of (presumably) Ahura Mazda. Here's one I recently acquired from Ebay, miraculously well preserved. [ATTACH]
Please disregard.
Khusro III, WYHC, year 2.[ATTACH]
Azarmigdukht (631 AD). AR drachm (34 mm, 4.12 g, 3h). Like all other coins of this queen, it is struck from recut dies, in this case of her...
The mint is AW, not ŠY. The stories about the sharing of women were true. It brought about a major crisis in the nobility, since the paternity of...
Yes. It's a well-known cast fake. Why is the Prince wearing a puppy on his head?
I hate to come in late, but the year on coin 2 is hptwyst, 27.
Actually, the Pahlavi on coins isn't all that bad. The legends are repetitive and formulaic, with a limited vocabulary. There are some late...
Only Peroz second crown type is dated (sometimes), with regnal years 2-7. His third type, which you have, is not and in place of a date has either...
Not the first, but most beautiful, was this, despite the double-struck reverse. (Not the Anahita type, but a double representation of the...
The Varhran family group was my first Sasanian coin. Please note that the preferred spelling of the dynasty is 'Sasanian'. Even the English have...
The female figure on the reverse is not the queen. The image is of Varhran receiving investiture from the goddess Anahita. My collection, before I...
Another, later Peroz imitation, also now at Princeton. [ATTACH]
Here's a Varhran V of Sind, formerly in my collection, now at Princeton. [ATTACH]
Here's another, from the Larry Adams collection. [ATTACH]
This is actually a finer specimen than the one in Sunrise. The Peroz type is perhaps the most common of the Sind imitations, since all later coins...
Khusro II, AY for Eran-Kwarrah-Shapur, year 7.
Top down: Khusro II, LYW for Rev-Ardashir, year 33. Khusro I, decade illegible, but ends in '2'. Ohrmazd IV, regnal year is 3, not 11.
This is a coin of Khusro II, minted in his own reign. The mint is AWH, for Ohrmazd-Ardashir, and the regnal year is 25, which would date it to...
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