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Drachm - Varhran II (type VII/1 - VII/2)
Country: Sasanian Empire
(Persia)
Denomination: AR Drachm
(1/12)
Year: (276-293)
Material: Silver (.900)
Weight: 3.75 g
Shape: ROund
Diameter: 27 mm
Type: Common coin
Catalog list: sasanian empirepersia
Description:
Obverse
Family portrait of Varhran II. The king wears a crown with wings and a globe. The queen's headdress is crowned by the animal head (boar-crown?). In front of the king and queen is the heir to the throne, crowned by the forepart of the head of a bird of prey (eagle-crown?).
Reverse
An atasdan with two attendants standing with their backs to the altar. The attendant on left wearing a winged crown (crown of Varhran II), the other on right a mural crown surmounted by globe.
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