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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hrefn, post: 7880185, member: 115171&quot;]As you wish.&nbsp; I took this photo to show how the Islamic dirham followed the Sassanian drachm.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1358727[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1358728[/ATTACH]</p><p>First is a drachm of Shapur I 240-271 AD. Rev: a Zoroastrian fire altar with two attendants.&nbsp; 4.4 grams. This ruler captured the Roman emperor Valerian.&nbsp; Manichaeism was preached by the prophet Mani at Shapur’s court but he remained a Zoroastrian. Purchased from Stephen M. Huston 3/1993 </p><p><br /></p><p>Next is a drachm of Khusro&nbsp; II 591-628 AD with a fire altar reverse.&nbsp; Regnal year 18.&nbsp; The mint is a puzzle.&nbsp; Warden says Arrajan, but other information would suggest “Weh Antioch Khusrau” i.e., “better than Antioch, Khusro (built it) meaning a district of Ctesiphon settled by Khusro with Antiochene captives.&nbsp; He invaded Roman territory after the murder of Maurice Tiberius by Focas.&nbsp; By&nbsp; 626 AD his forces combined with the Avars and Slavs to besiege Constantinople.&nbsp; Heraclius repulsed his forces,&nbsp; recaptured all lost Roman territory and the True Cross which Khusro had plundered from Jerusalem.&nbsp; His son revolted and had all his brothers and ultimately his father executed.&nbsp; The ensuing chaos primed the Sassanid empire for the Muslim conquest.&nbsp; Purchased from Warden Numismatics 4/2015 </p><p><br /></p><p>Next is a dirham of the tenth Umayyad Caliph Hisham 724-743 AD, AH 119 of the Wasit mint.&nbsp; Wasit was a garrison town in Iraq.&nbsp; Album 137.&nbsp; During his reign was fought the Battle of Tours 732 AD.&nbsp; Purchased from William Warden 11/1999[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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