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Description: SASANIAN KINGS. Kavād (Kavādh) I. Second reign, AD 499-531. AV Dinar (22mm, 4.07 g, 3h). AYL (Susa?) mint. Dated RY 41 (AD 529/30). kw’d in Pahlavi to right, bust right, wearing mural crown with frontal crescent, two ribbons, and korymbos set on crescent, ribbons and crescents on shoulders; stars flanking head; star-in-crescents in margin / Fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants; star and crescent flanking flames; y’č in Pahlavi (date) on left, ;6 ’yl in Pahlavi (mint) on right; double border. SNS type Ib-c/1b; SNS Schaaf –; SC Tehran –; cf. Göbl type II/2 (for type); Saeedi –; Sunrise – . EF, hint of weak strike in outer border of reverse. Unpublished and unique.
Title: Coin of Kavad I, possibly minted in Susa
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