First Known Dinar of Kavadh I

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 402. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $18000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SASANIAN KINGS. Kavadh I. Third reign, AD 499-531. AV Dinar (4.06 g, 3h). AYL (Susa?) mint. Dated RY 41 (529/30). t1wk, bust right, wearing mural crown with frontal crescent and korymbos set on crescent, ribbons and crescents on shoulders; stars flanking crown / x x1y to left, ly1 to right, fire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants; star and crescent flanking flames. Cf. Göbl type II/2 (for type). EF. Unpublished and unique.

Only gold fractions were previously known for Kavadh, all of which are of Göbl type I/1 (cf. Göbl pl. 11, 182 and 184, and Saeedi AV 85-7).