SASANIAN.Hormazd ( Ohrmazd ) IV AD 579-590.AR.Drachm. Regnal year 4 ( AD 582 ). mint BYS ( Bishapur, Fars).( 4.03g, 30.3mm, 3h ). Draped bust of Hormazd right wearing an elaborate mural crown with frontal crescent, kolymbos in crescent on right shoulder, crescent on left shoulder. Reverse.Fire altar with ribbons flanked with a star and crescent, attendant either side, mint signature to right and regnal year on left. Ref:Gobl type 1/1, Sellwood 56. Very fine, weak areas in strike. |