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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1704249, member: 26302&quot;]I would disagree somewhat from the writeup, (respectfully of course). I don&#039;t view Peroz as a weak leader. I view him as hungry for glory. Remember he finished the war against the Kidarites his father started, and this helped rid his empire of a formidable enemy. The Hepthalites were getting yearly tribute payments, and if the Sassanids could have defeated them and eliminated the need for this payment it would have been a great boon to the Persians. So, we have a king who finished a war his father started, but wanted to rid Persia of its greatest threat on his own, to be revered forever. His greatest weakness is he wasn&#039;t a great military commander, and many of his military leaders he listened to were Sassanian, from Fars, not the great military leaders of Persia who were all Parthian nobility. If Peroz could have convinced the Parthian noble families to united behind this cause, and lead it, it probably would have been successful.</p><p><br /></p><p>As such, I view his defeats as another instance of the dynamic of inter-Persian politics that pitted Sassanid rulers versus the military strong Parthian nobility. Interestingly, the was the first instance really of this struggle. His son, then famously his grandson, would truly open up this gulf wider. His great grandson, Khusro II, basically destroyed the Sassanid empire by expanding this struggle to such an extent the Parthian nobility finally had enough of the Sassanids and sided with the invading Muslims.</p><p><br /></p><p>I find Peroz coins both of fine style like this one, but also a whole bunch of poor style. I am guessing many of the poor style specimens were the tribute coins, made in a rush to ransom the Shah&#039;s life.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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