SASANIAN.Hormazd ( Ohrmazd ) IV AD 579-590.AR.Drachm. Regnal year 6 ( AD 583 ). mint WYHC ( uncertain location ).( 4.07g, 31.9mm, 9h ).
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
Good very fine, some flatness in strike, small edge hairline split.
Most Sasanian mint attributions are problematic, the mint signature WYHC is a major mint yet the location has not been firmly established. Many locations have been proposed Veh-az-Amid-Kavad, Fars, Veh-Ardaxsir, Southern Iraq, Media and Nishapur are among the candidates proposed.