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Drachm - Hormizd I
| Issuer | Indo-Sasanian Kingdom |
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| Year | 256-264 |
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| Value | 1 Drachm (1⁄12) |
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| Reverse script | Pahlavi |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Hormizd I ruled for under two years before dying in 270 AD, making any coinage associated with his name exceptionally short-lived in production. The Indo-Sasanian series bearing his name, however, represents a distinct branch — these are not metropolitan Sasanian issues but coins struck by governors or sub-kings administering eastern territories, adapting the Sasanian type for local use in what is now Afghanistan and Pakistan. Göbl's classification separates them clearly from the imperial mint output.
The Herzfeld attribution places this squarely among the earliest Indo-Sasanian material, predating the longer and better-documented Kushano-Sasanian sequence that followed under Peroz I.