Pashiz - Shapur I

Shapur I's copper pashiz coinage remains poorly understood in terms of mint attribution — Göbl's classification acknowledges significant die variation across the 170–171 range without resolving precise production centers. What is certain is that these circulated during the most militarily triumphant stretch of Shapur's reign: the period following his capture of the Roman emperor Valerian at the Battle of Edessa in 260 AD, the only time in history a sitting Roman emperor was taken prisoner by a foreign power.