Here is something that isn't a tetradrachm! Kavād (Kavādh) I 499 - 531 A.D.) AR Drachm Second Reign O: Bust right, wearing mural crown with frontal crescent, two ribbons, and korymbos set on crescent, ribbons and crescents on shoulders; star behind head. R: ire altar with ribbons; flanked by two attendants; RY to left, mint signature to right; star and crescent flanking flames. BYŠ (Bīshāpūr) Mint, Dated RY 37 (AD 525/6) 28mm 3.54g SNS type Ic/1b; Sunrise
Hey @Mat 's Kavadh I, meet my Kavadh I. I believe yours is from his later reign. Mine is from his first reign, when he was a young hippie who ordered his nobles to take their wives and offer them up sexually to the peasants. Needless to say, that didn't go well and poor Kavadh I ended up getting sent to the Castle of Oblivion. He escaped shortly afterwards and, apparently learned from his earlier mistakes, as he seems to have been a better ruler in his older years.
Very nice Kavads! I have one! Kavadh I Second Reign (498-531 AD) Rayy, Iran (DYNAW) Dated yr. 33 (521 AD) AR Drachm 27 mm x 4.08 grams Obverse: Bust of Kavad I single boarder Stars and Mood ornaments. Reverse: Date and Mint. Zoroastrian Fire Alter flanked by attendants. Double border reverse. Ref: Gobl III/2 Type 190.
he does look like he needs a bit more meat on his bones doesn't he? i don't have this guy, but i do have his kid... Sasanian Empire. Khosrau I. AD 531-579. AR Drachm O: Crowned bust right, Pahlavi script./R: Fire altar with ribbons and attendants; star and crescent flanking flames; RY date on left (regnal year 28, 558AD, mint signature on right, GU (Gurgon mint). 30 mm, 4.1 g
These are the only Sassanian ones that I have: Persia Sassanian Ardashir III 628-629 CE AR Drachm 36mm 3.85g Zoroastrian Fire Alter Gobl II-1 yr 2 Delta RARE Sassanian Shapur I 240-272 CE AE Tetradrachm 10.78g 27mm Ctesiphon mint phase 1a mural crown korymbos - fire altar type 2 SNS IIa1-1a
Thank you. It was a fun find: Captured Valerian which put the Roman Empire into a tailspin; and it is Bronze. Kinda cool and different.
Here's another type of Kavad: a tiny AE coin, called 1/12 unit by Göbl. It has basically the same obverse and reverse, with crescent-and-stars outside the pearl rim on the obverse. That makes it Göbl 186, dated between the 13th and 19th year of Kavad's reign (488-531). The coin measures 12 mm and weighs .40 gr. only.
