A New Collection of Sasanian Coins in the National Museum of Iran

Abstract

The Sayfi Collection is one of the most important collections at the National Museum of Iran, Tehran, consisting of over 80 thousand Iranian traditional artistic objects from pre-historic times to the modern period. The collection includes about 500 coins from the pre-Islamic period; the bulk of them is datable to the Sasanian period (300 to 350) and the rest comes from the Parthian period (100 to 150). The Sasanian coins mostly belong to the rule of Khosrow II in the late sixth/early seventh century CE.