Drachm - Hormazd II

Hormazd II ruled for roughly six years before being killed — according to later sources — by his own nobles, who then blinded one son, imprisoned another, and installed the infant Shapur II by placing the crown on his unborn child's womb. The political violence surrounding this reign makes any surviving silver from it a direct artifact of a court in crisis. Göbl's classification places this among the earliest Sasanian die structures, and the SNS Iran reference confirms a very limited number of documented specimens.