Dinar - Shapur II

Shapur II came to power under extraordinary circumstances: crowned before birth, the Sasanian nobles reportedly placed the diadem on his mother's womb after the death of Hormizd II in 309. He would go on to reign for 70 years — the longest of any Sasanian king — waging three separate wars against Rome and earning the epithet "Lord of the Shoulders" for his treatment of captured enemies. The 320 date places this coin in his early reign, well before the decades of Roman campaigning that would define his rule.