Bahram Chobin
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Bahrām Chōbīn or Bahrām Chōbēn or Wahrām Chōbēn, also known by his epithet Mihrbandak, was a nobleman, general, and political leader of the late Sasanian Empire and briefly its ruler as Bahram VI.
Drachma of Bahram Chobin, minted at Arrajan in 590.
Bahram Chobin fighting Sawa Shah (Bagha Qaghan).
Drachma of the Sasanian king (shah) Hormizd IV (r. 579–590).
Bahram Chobin's night attack against the Sasanian loyalists at Nahrawan Canal near Ctesiphon.
Khosrow II
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Khosrow II, commonly known as Khosrow Parviz, is considered to be the last great monarch of pre-Islamic Iran, ruling the Sasanian Empire from 590 to 628, including an interruption of one year.
Bahram Chobin
…the promised savior of the Zoroastrian faith. Before he had reached the Sasanian capital of Ctesiphon, Hormizd was assassinated in support of his son, Khosrow II, by another anti-Hormizd faction led by the two Ispahbudhan brothers, Vistahm and Vinduyih. As Bahram captured Ctesiphon, Khosrow II fled to the Byzantine…
Gold dinar of Khosrow II, minted in 611
Drachma of Hormizd IV
Relief from the Sasanian Empire with the word farr written in a calligraphic style of Middle Persian