CNG 90, Lot: 919. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KUSHANO-SASANIANS. Ohrmazd (Hormizd) I Kushanshah. Circa AD 285-300. AV Dinar (28mm, 7.85 g, 11h). Cribb Variety II. Mint C. 4th emission. Ohrmazd standing left, wearing lion-head crown with korymbos and ribbons, flames at shoulders, holding trident and sacrificing at altar; to left, filleted trident standard, Buddhist triratana (“Three Jewels”) to right; at feet, pellet to right of altar; between legs, pellet above retrograde swastika; triple pellets below left upper arm / Siva standing facing (no ground line), holding trident; behind, the bull Nandi standing left. Carter 26 var. (pellet in outside margin on obv.); Cribb 3 var. (ground line on rev.); MK 707; Sunrise 1018 var. (pellet outside margin on obv., ground line on rev.). Near EF, lustrous.

Ex Spink America (21 October 1998), lot 81.