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Pashiz - Wahram V
| Issuer | Sasanian Empire |
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| Year | 420-438 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Inscriptional Pahlavi |
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| Mint | HRT - Aria (modern-day Herat, Afghanistan) |
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Wahram V — Bahram Gur in Persian tradition — is among the most romantically mythologized of all Sasanian monarchs, celebrated in Firdausi's Shahnameh as a hunter and poet. His lead pashiz issues are a different matter entirely: unglamorous fractional currency for low-value transactions, almost certainly produced at regional mints rather than the principal royal workshops. Lead coinage of this period survives poorly, corroding badly in most burial environments, which makes even modest examples genuinely scarce in identifiable condition.