Drachm - Peroz third crown

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.