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Drachm - Wahram IV

Issuer Sasanian Empire
Year 389-394
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Currency Dinar (224 AD-651 AD)
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Obverse script Pahlavi
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Mintage ND (389-394)
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Wahram IV ruled for just five years before being murdered by his own nobles — a fate that punctuates much of late Sasanian dynastic history. His reign fell during a period of fragile equilibrium with Rome, stabilized by the 363 AD peace treaty that ceded Nisibis and much of Mesopotamia to Persia, though that settlement was already a generation old by the time these coins were struck. The relatively narrow emission window and the circumstances of his death kept production volumes modest.

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