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Drachm - Ohrmazd I Hormizd I
| Issuer | Sasanian Empire |
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| Year | 272-273 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Effigy of Hormizd I facing right, depicted with a diademed and elaborately crowned bust featuring the distinctive korymbos — a globe of hair encased in a silken bag — surmounting the crown. A symbolic device appears on the shoulder. The portrait is rendered in the characteristic Sasanian high-relief style, with fine detailing of the royal regalia conveying divine kingship. |
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| Reverse description | A Zoroastrian fire altar with a fluttering ribbon rises at the center of the design, flanked by two attendant figures facing inward in a heraldic composition. The attendant at left wears a crown surmounted by the korymbos and raises one arm in a gesture of veneration; the attendant at right wears the radiate crown of the solar deity Mithra and holds aloft a diadem. The scene evokes the sacred fire cult central to Sasanian religious ideology and royal legitimacy. |
| Reverse script | Pahlavi (Middle Persian) |
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