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Dinar - Wahram IV Merv mint
| Issuer | Sasanian Empire |
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| Year | 388 |
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| Diameter | 22 mm |
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| Reverse description | A stepped Zoroastrian fire altar depicted frontally at centre, with flames rising from the altar table rendered as stylised tongues of fire above a beaded horizontal band. Two attendant figures, each standing in profile facing the altar, flank the structure on either side, rendered in low relief in the characteristic Sasanian manner. The altar pedestal tapers to a stepped base. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded border, with the field largely plain, consistent with early Sasanian dinar reverse types struck at the Merv mint. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Wahram IV ruled for only a decade (388–399) and left an unusually thin documentary record for a Sasanian king, his reign sandwiched between the better-attested Shapur III and Yazdegerd I. The Merv mint — deep in Margiana, far from the Ctesiphon heartland — served primarily as a supply point for campaigns on the northeastern frontier, where Kidarite pressure was a persistent and largely underdocumented problem throughout the late fourth century.
SNS Iran#Ia3/1a places this among the earliest die groups of the reign.