Drachm - Varhran II type II/1

Vahram II ruled a Sasanian Empire under simultaneous pressure from Rome in the west and internal dynastic challengers from within his own family — his brother Hormizd, who briefly seized power in the eastern provinces, forced a political crisis that Vahram resolved through negotiation rather than open war. The coinage from this period functioned as an instrument of legitimacy, issued across a reign defined more by diplomatic maneuvering than military triumph.

The type II/1 classification in Göbl's system places this among the earlier emissions of the reign, before progressive die evolution produced the later subtypes Schaaf's SNS corpus carefully distinguishes.