Ancient ; SASSANIAN KINGDOM ; NARSEH (AD 293-303) ; Silver Drachm

Description

Ancient ; SASSANIAN KINGDOM ; NARSEH (AD 293-303) ; Silver Drachm ; Weight : 3.89 Grams
Bust of Narseh right, wearing crown with arcades, three foliate branches, and korymbos, hair in single group. Rev. Fire altar, flanked by two attendants, both wearing mural crowns, the left with korymbos, symbols flanking flames (SNS type Ia/1a; cf Göbl type II/2 (altar with ribbon); Paruck 165; Saeedi 177; Sunrise 803,)
Note : Narses, uncle of Bahran II succeeded him in 293 and had to face a new Roman invasion which once again led them to the gates of Ctesiphon. Galerius led two successive campaigns against the Sassanids after a truce that had lasted for almost ten years had been broken.