SASANIAN.Hormazd ( Ohrmazd ) IV AD 579-590.AR.Drachm. Regnal year 6 ( AD 583 ). mint WLC ( uncertain location ).( 4.12g, 31mm, 4h ). 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 Better than very fine, some flat areas in strike. Most Sasanian mint attributions are problematic, the mint signature WLC remains an enigmatic mint; no suggestion as to mint location has been proposed. |