KUSHANO-SASANIANS. Bahram III (Kidara), circa 350-?. Dinar (Gold, 33 mm, 7.67 g), struck by Kidara in the name of Bahram III , Balkh. 'BAΓO OAPAYPANO O-OOZOPKO KOÞANO ÞAYO ('His Majesty, Bahram, Great King of the Kushan' in Bactrian) Bahram standing front, head to left, wearing a crenellated crown with a globe on top between two broad horizontally-pleated ribbons, sacrificing with his right hand over lighted altar and holding trident in his left hand; to left, trident above small altar; to right, tamgha. Rev. 'BORZAOANDO IAZADO' ('The illustrious God' in Bactrian) The illustrious God (Shiva) standing facing with flaming hair, holding diadem in his right hand and trident in his left; behind, the bull Nandi, his companion, standing left. ANS Kushan 2423. Cribb, Kidarites, p. 140, 11. Struck from the usual heavily worn reverse die, otherwise, extremely fine.

From a North German collection of Central Asian gold coins, formed from the 1960s to 1980s.