Drachm - Hormazd I type I/1

Hormazd I ruled for less than two years before dying — possibly of illness — leaving his brother Bahram I to take the throne in 273. The brevity of his reign is the single most important fact about this coin: production windows for Hormazd I types were short, and the surviving die corpus is correspondingly small. Göbl's classification of this as type I/1 places it among the earliest Sasanian drachms to show the standardizing tendencies that would define the dynasty's silver coinage for the next four centuries.