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Drachm - Peroz third crown

Issuer Sasanian Empire
Year 474-477
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Value Drachm (1⁄12)
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Reverse script Inscriptional Pahlavi
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Edge Plain
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Peroz I came to the Sasanian throne only after a protracted power struggle with his brother Hormizd III, a conflict he resolved partly through an alliance with the Hephthalites — the same steppe confederacy that would later destroy him at the Battle of Herat in 484. His third crown type represents a relatively narrow window of his reign, struck before the catastrophic eastern campaigns that drained the treasury and forced unprecedented taxation on the Persian nobility.

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