SASANIAN KINGS. Bahram I, 273-276. Dinar (Gold, 21 mm, 7.16 g, 3 h), Style A/c, mint I (‘Ctesiphon’). Draped bust of Bahram I to right, wearing diadem and radiate crown with a great korymbos on top and long earflaps; two ribbons rising from behind head; two pellets above the ribbons; deteriorated legend along the dotted rim, running anticlockwise from 11 h to 1 h, ‘mzdysn bgy wrhrʾn MRKAn MRKA ʾyrʾn W ʾnyrʾn MNW ctry MN yzdʾn’ = ‘mazdēsn bay Wahrām šāhān šāh Ērān ud Anērān kē čihr az yaz(a)dān’ (‘The Mazda-worshipping Lord, Bahram, King of Kings of the Iranians and Non-Iranians, whose essence is from the gods’ in Pahlavi). Rev. Zoroastrian fire altar flanked by two attendants, wearing different types of crowns and holding scepters; to left and right, ‘NWRA ˗ wrhrʾn’ = ‘ādur [ī] Wahrām’ (‘Fire of Bahram’ in deteriorated Pahlavi). Göbl type I/1. Cf. SNS II, type I(1)/1bb(1a) (on the reverse: to right and left, ‘NWRA ˗ wrhrʾn’). A rare variety. Some doubling and nicks, otherwise, good very fine.