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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 3191471, member: 81887&quot;]I recently bought this coin from a fixed-price list of Stephen Album:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]823993[/ATTACH] </p><p>Kushano-Sasanians.&nbsp; AE chalkos or unit (16 mm).&nbsp; Ardashir I (c.230-245 AD).&nbsp; Obverse: Sassanian-Style bust right, Pahlavi legend around.&nbsp; Reverse: Deity (Anahita?) seated below canopy, holding trident and wreath, Pahlavi legend around.&nbsp; Legend given by Mitchiner as &quot;MaZDISN BaGI ARTaHShaTR RaBI KUShAN MaLKA&quot; (&quot;The Mazda-worshipper Ardashir, Lord, King of the Kushans&quot;).&nbsp; Cribb 16, Mitchiner ACW 1264-1265, Sunrise 1013-1014.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Kushano-Sasanians were vassals of the main Sasanian Persian line who administered former Kushan territories west of the Indus, including Bactria, Gandhara, and Sogdiana.&nbsp; They issued coins from around 230 to around 370 AD, when their territory was overrun by the Kidarite Huns.&nbsp; Very few historical documents survive, and most Kushano-Sasanian kings are known only from their coin inscriptions.&nbsp; (The Ardashir I who issued this coin as &quot;King of the Kushans&quot; is probably a different person from the Ardashir I who was the Sasanian King of Kings at the time.)&nbsp; Coins were issued primarily in bronze, with some gold and rare silver issues.&nbsp; Reverses include both typical Sasanian-derived types (fire-altars with or without Ahura Mazda rising from the flames) and Kushan-style types (Shiva with bull, or this type featuring a deity sometimes identified as the Iranian goddess Anahita).&nbsp; Kushano-Sasanian bronze coins are common in low grade, but well-preserved specimens are hard to find.&nbsp; Post your Kushano-Sasanian coins, or other related coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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