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Draped bust of Khosrau II facing right, wearing pendant earring and an elaborate winged crown surmounted by a star and crescent, all within a beaded inner circle. The bust is rendered in the characteristic late Sasanian style, with the sovereign's features depicted in fine relief. Flanking the bust within the border zone are pairs of small crescent-and-star devices positioned at the cardinal points of the field. The entire design is enclosed within a double beaded border. |
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Central fire altar with stepped base, adorned with hanging ribbons, flanked by two attendants standing facing one another in profile, each holding a staff or barsom. The scene is rendered in the standard late Sasanian fashion within a beaded inner circle. Mint and regnal year inscriptions in Pahlavi script appear in the margin and outer field. The composition is enclosed within a double beaded border. |
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Azarmidukht ruled for under a year, one of two daughters of Khosrow II to claim the Sasanian throne in the catastrophic decade following his execution in 628. Her reign ended when the powerful general Farrukh Hormizd — whom she had refused to marry — was killed at her order, prompting his son Rostam to overthrow and blind her. The brevity of her rule and the administrative collapse of the late Sasanian state combined to produce an extremely small surviving corpus of her coinage.
The Göbl absence for this type reflects ongoing scholarly uncertainty about mint attribution rather than modern discovery; SNS Schaaf 702-703 remains the primary reference anchor.