Pashiz - Wahram IV

Lead pashiz issues of Wahram IV occupy an awkward corner of Sasanian numismatics — base-metal fractions whose exact denominational relationship to the silver drachm remains unresolved. Wahram IV ruled for roughly a decade, a reign defined more by its uneventful stability than by crisis, which makes the relative obscurity of his coinage a function of scholarly neglect rather than historical drama. Lead issues specifically are poorly documented in major collections, surviving in small numbers with provenance rarely traceable beyond nineteenth-century excavation lots in the eastern provinces.