Drachm - Kavadh II type I/1

Kavadh II seized the throne in early 628 by deposing his father Khosrow II, who died in prison shortly after — likely executed on his son's orders. The reign lasted roughly eight months before Kavadh succumbed to plague, the same epidemic that was cutting through a Sasanian state already gutted by decades of Byzantine war and internal revolt. He managed to negotiate peace with Heraclius and return the True Cross, but the dynasty never recovered its footing.

Type I/1 represents the earliest emission of his reign, struck before the administrative machinery had fully transitioned from Khosrow-era dies.