Obol - Valkash

Valkash — known in Greek sources as Balash — ruled for fewer than four years before being deposed and blinded by Sasanian nobles dissatisfied with his conciliatory stance toward the Byzantine Empire and his failure to suppress the Hephthalite threat on the eastern frontier. His reign is so compressed that coinage attributable to him is genuinely scarce, and the obol denomination in particular survives in small numbers relative to his drachms.