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Drachm - Varhran II type X/3 - XI/3

Issuer Sasanian Empire
Year 276-293
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Technique Hammered
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Obverse script Pahlavi
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Edge Plain
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Varhran II ruled longer than any of his immediate predecessors — seventeen years — but his reign was defined less by stability than by continuous pressure: usurpation attempts, Roman campaigns under Carus that briefly took Ctesiphon in 283, and persistent Zoroastrian priestly influence brokered through the powerful Kartir. The X/3 and XI/3 die groupings in Göbl's classification reflect genuine workshop variation across this extended reign rather than a single concentrated issue, which is why the SNS Schaaf references span such an unusually wide numerical range.

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