SASANIAN KINGS. Bahram II, 276-293. Dinar (Gold, 21 mm, 7.30 g, 3 h), style B, Hamadān, phase 1, AD 276 or slightly later. Diademed and draped bust of Bahram II to right, wearing winged crown with a great korymbos on top; long beard tied in the middle and thick tufts of curly hair at the back; two ribbons rising from behind head; three pellets above the wing; legend along the dotted rim, running anticlockwise from 11 h to 1 h ‘ʾyry mzdysn bgy wrhrʾn MRKAn MRKA ʾyrʾn W ʾnyrʾn MNW ctry MN yzdʾn’ = ‘ēr mazdēsn bay Wahrām šāhān šāh Ērān ud Anērān kē čihr az yaz(a)dān’ (‘The Aryan 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 crowns; to right and left, ‘NWRA ZY – wrhrʾn’ = ‘ādur ī Wahrām’ (‘Fire of Bahram’ in Pahlavi); a crescent and two pellets on the third tier of the fire altar. Göbl type I/1. SNS II, type I(2)/1(1a). A beautiful piece with an impressive headgear. Very light deposits, otherwise, about extremely fine.