Drachm - Buran

Obverse description	Draped bust of Queen Buran facing right, depicted wearing a distinctive royal crown surmounted by two lateral wings and a korymbos set upon a crescent. A ribbon falls over the left shoulder, while a crescent and ribbon adorn the right; star and star-in-crescent devices flank the crown on either side. The surrounding margin is populated with a series of star-in-crescent motifs forming a decorative border in the field.
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Reverse script	Pahlavi
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Additional information	Buran — more formally Boran, daughter of Khosrow II — ruled for roughly two years across two separate stints, making her one of the last rulers of a dynasty in terminal collapse. She came to power amid the succession chaos that followed the Byzantine wars and the internal revolts that had already gutted Sasanian political authority. Her reign was unusual enough that later Islamic historians treated it as a curiosity worth noting: a woman on the throne of Iran, issuing coinage in her own name, at the precise moment the Arab conquests were beginning to move northward. The Göbl classification places this among the final coherent royal issues before provincial governors effectively fragmented what remained of Sasanian minting.