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Dinar - Hormazd II
| Issuer | Sasanian Empire |
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| Year | 303-309 |
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| Composition | Gold |
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| Obverse script | Pahlavi |
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| Reverse description | A stepped Zoroastrian fire altar rendered in the center of the field, with a bust emerging from the flames at the top, flanked by two standing royal attendants or guards facing inward toward the altar, each wearing Sasanian court dress with beaded jewelry and holding their hands in a gesture of reverence. The entire composition is enclosed within a beaded border. No legible reverse legend is present on this type. |
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Hormazd II ruled for roughly six years before being killed — almost certainly by members of the Sasanian nobility, the same aristocratic factions that had grown powerful enough to depose and blind multiple kings across the third and fourth centuries. His young son Adur Narseh was murdered outright; another son was imprisoned. The throne passed only after a third son, still unborn at the time of Hormazd's death, was legitimized in utero — that child became Shapur II, who would reign for seventy years.
Göbl's I/1b places this dinar among the earliest die groupings of the reign.