Drachm with Shapur I

240-272 CE (Sasanian)

2.5 cm 1 cm

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Obverse: Bearded bust, right, wearing mural crown with globe (korymbos) and earflaps, surrounded by legend in Pahlavi; all within beaded border. Reverse: Fire altar flanked by armed and cuirassed attendants wearing crowns and carrying spears, legend at right and left; all with...

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Richard Ettinghausen [1906-1979], Princeton, 1950s-1960s, by purchase; Elizabeth Ettinghausen, Princeton, 1979, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 2018, by bequest.
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sourceUrl https://purl.thewalters.org/art/2018.8.3

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