CENTRAL ASIAN · LN-632733857099

Bahram I Dinar

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Dynasty

Sasanian Empire

Ruler

Bahram I

Era

AD 271-274

Denomination

Dinar

Mint

Ctesiphon

Catalog references

Göbl Sasan# I/1; SNS# 116

Draped bust of king facing right, wearing a diadem and a five-rayed crown surmounted by a korymbos and long earflaps; beard tied at bottom and hair bunched at the shoulders. Two diadem ribbons rise behind the head, with two small pellets above them. Pahlavi legend around the margin; dotted border. Zoroastrian fire altar with ribbons and stylized flames rising from the top. Two attendants flank the altar, facing outward and holding long staffs or swords; the left attendant wears a crown surmounted by a korymbos, and the right wears a mural crown. Pahlavi legend in the fields; dotted border.

Bahram I was the Sasanian King of Kings of Iran who ruled from AD 271 to 274. He succeeded his brother Hormizd I and is notable for elevating the influential Zoroastrian high priest Kartir. During his brief reign, he ordered the imprisonment and execution of Mani, the founder of Manichaeism, securing Zoroastrianism as the state religion.

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