Pashiz / Unit / Chalkous - Varhran V type I/1

Vahram V — Bahram Gur in the Persian literary tradition — ruled during a period of renewed conflict with the Eastern Roman Empire and prolonged warfare against the Hephthalites on the eastern frontier. Small-denomination fractional issues like this one were the everyday transactional coinage of the Sasanian economy, circulating in markets where silver drachms were simply too valuable for routine exchange. Lead and copper fractions of this type survive in comparatively low numbers despite their original ubiquity, largely because the material was too base to hoard and too soft to survive.