Drachm - Bahram V

Bahram V — known as Bahram Gur, "the wild ass," for his obsession with hunting — ruled during one of the more stable stretches of late Sasanian history, though his reign opened with a war against the Eastern Roman Empire in 421–422 that ended in a negotiated religious tolerance agreement, one of the earliest formal treaties guaranteeing Christian minority rights within Sasanian territory. His coinage was prolific, struck across a wide network of provincial mints, and mint attribution for individual specimens often relies on Pahlavi mint marks that remain only partially decoded in the scholarly literature.