Kushano Sasanians, Hormazd I Kushanshah. (Circa AD 265-295). AE Unit.
(2.55gm, 16mm).
Crowned bust right, wearing lion headdress, crescent in upper left field One dot above left / Hormizd standing right, holding investiture wreath over altar in right hand and raising left hand in benedictional gesture to Anahita rising left from throne, holding investiture wreath in raised right hand and sceptre in left.
Rare.
The Kushano-sasanians were sasanian princes ruling the old kushan lands in Bactria, the Kabul valley and Gandhara, as sasanian vasalls. Some periods these kushan-shahs were more or less independent, like this ruler, Hormazd I Kushanshah, ruling about AD 295-325 (or 270-295 according to Cribb). Mint for this type might be the Kabul valley.
