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A work made of silver.

Drachma (Coin) Portraying Chosroes I

531-579

Sasanian; Persia (now Iran)

Iran

The front of this coin portrays Chosroes I.

The scene on the back includes a pyre burning on an altar, with a star above.

Silver

Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium