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Drachm - Bahram VI type I/1
| Issuer | Sasanian Empire |
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| Year | 590-591 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Pahlavi |
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| Reverse description | Fire altar with stepped base and flaming top, decorated with suspended ribbons or pendants on either side, occupying the centre of the field. Two attendants stand facing inward, one on each side of the altar, each holding a staff or barsom. The design is enclosed within a beaded border, consistent with standard Sasanian drachm reverse types of the late sixth century. |
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Bahram VI — known as Bahram Chobin — was not a member of the Sasanian royal family at all, but a general of the Mihranid house who seized the throne from Hormizd IV's son Khosrow II in 590. His reign lasted barely a year before Khosrow, backed by Byzantine military support personally authorized by Emperor Maurice, drove him east. Bahram retreated into Sogdia, where he was assassinated around 591, almost certainly at Khosrow's instigation.
The extreme brevity of his rule, combined with the disruption of civil war, kept mintage low across all recorded varieties.