Description

SASANIAN EMPIRE. Hormizd IV, 579-590. AR Drachm (4.14g/ 32mm), WYH, Year 9 = AD 587. Draped bust of Hormizd IV to right, wearing elaborate mural crown with frontal crescent and korymbos set on crescent; behind head, AFZUT (‘may increase’ in Pahlawi); before head, WHLMZD (‘Hormizd’ in Pahlawi). Rev. Fire altar flanked by two attendants; in upper left field, six-pointed star; in upper right field, crescent; to left, date; to right, WYHC (name of the mint in Pahlawi). SSCT 1348. Very fine.