Kushano-Sasanian, Bahram I, c. 340-345. AV dinar, 7.80 g. (35 mm), Bactrian mint (Balkh probably). Obverse: Bahram I standing front, head to left, wearing a crown with a globe on top between two broad horizontally-pleated ribbons, sacrificing with his right hand over altar and holding trident in his left hand; to left, trident, to right, tamgha. Reverse: the god Oesho or Shiva standing facing, holding diadem and trident; behind, the bull Nandi standing left, inside dotted border. With a particularly beautiful and richly detailed obverse.
About EF, struck on a large flan with very lustrous surfaces.
Ex Chand Collection, British Museum 6.3.87
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