Coin Portraying King Chosroes II
590-628
- Medium
- Silver
- Classification
- Coin
- Dimensions
- Diam.: 2.9 cm (1 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- Roman Empire
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Credit line
- Gift of William F. Dunham
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
The front (obverse) of this coin portrays the head of King Chosroes II, the last great king of the Sasanian Empire, facing to the right. The back (reverse) shows a fire altar with attendants, a crescent and star flank the flames.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
