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

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.