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Message:: [QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 4659439, member: 96898"]Zoroastrian fire altar:[ATTACH=full]1149768[/ATTACH] Khusru II, Sasanian Empire, AR drachm, 590–628 AD, Ram Hurmizd mint. Obv: cuirassed bust r., with winged crown, three stars within crescents around. Rev: fire altar with two attendants, star and crescent flanking flames. 31mm, 4.07g. Ref: Göbl 213 (?). Ex AMCC 1, lot 482 (their picture). (Is it okay to add that this imitation of the Sasanian type does in fact show a stylized bust of the Zoroastrian deity Ahura Mazda on the reverse, but was struck under an Islamic ruler and also features the name of the caliph al-Mahdi? I guess that makes it a religiously complicated issue...) [ATTACH=full]1149770[/ATTACH]Bukhara, “Bukhar Hudat” BI drachm, ca. 775–785 AD or later as immobilized type, citing caliph al-Mahdi. Obv:  degraded bust of Varhran V; Arabic legend "al-Mahdi" l.; Soghdian legend "Bukhar Hudat" r. Rev: fire altar with two attendants holding spears, head of Ahura Mazda r. in flames. 25mm, 2.4g. Ref: Album 94. Next: an imitation that is neither modern nor contemporaneous to the original[/QUOTE]