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Auction: 4018 - The Coinex Auction
Lot: 158

Kushano-Sasanian, Varahan Kushanshah II (c. late 4th cent. A.D.), AV Dinar, 7.52g., king standing left making offering at a fire altar, wearing two-horned headdress with artichoke finial, and holding a trident, rev. Siva and bull Nandi (Cribb 10; Göbl 714; cf. MAC.1309), broken and repaired, reverse double struck, very fine and scarce Estimate £ 180-250 Joe Cribb attributes this coin to the ruler Peroz III in "Numismatic Evidence for Kushano-Sasanian Chronology" Studia Iranica, Tome 19, 1990, fascicule 2, pp. 151-193

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