Dinar - Narseh

Narseh seized the Sasanian throne by force in 293, overthrowing his grandnephew Bahram III after a reign of just four months. His own rule ended in humiliation: defeated by the Roman Caesar Galerius at the Battle of Satala in 298, he was compelled to sign the Treaty of Nisibis, surrendering five territories east of the Tigris and handing over members of the royal family as hostages. The gold coinage struck across his decade of rule is consequently limited in volume, with the SNS Id/3c variety among the more precisely documented die groupings from this short and troubled reign.