Yazdgird II spent much of his reign in active military campaigning — first against the Byzantines in the early 430s, then pivoting decisively eastward against the Kidarites along the empire's Bactrian frontier. The coins struck during this window, roughly 439–447, correspond to a period when Sasanian administrative attention was sharply focused on the northeast, and mint output reflects that military economy.
The SNS reference PBW3#Ib1/2b designates a specific obverse die pairing documented by Schindel's corpus — the combination of bust type Ib1 with reverse die 2b is one of the more precisely catalogued attributions in this reign's sequence.
Yazdgird II spent much of his reign in active military campaigning — first against the Byzantines in the early 430s, then pivoting decisively eastward against the Kidarites along the empire's Bactrian frontier. The coins struck during this window, roughly 439–447, correspond to a period when Sasanian administrative attention was sharply focused on the northeast, and mint output reflects that military economy.
The SNS reference PBW3#Ib1/2b designates a specific obverse die pairing documented by Schindel's corpus — the combination of bust type Ib1 with reverse die 2b is one of the more precisely catalogued attributions in this reign's sequence.