SASANIAN.Hormazd ( Ohrmazd ) IV AD 579-590.AR.Drachm. Regnal year 9 ( AD 586 ). mint BBA ( Court mint). ( 4.11g, 31.3mm, 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.
Better than very fine, weak areas in strike.