Drachma (Coin) Portraying Chosroes I
Iranian (now Iran)
531-579
- Medium
- Silver
- Classification
- Coin
- Dimensions
- Diam.: 3 cm (1 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- Iran
- 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 of this coin portrays Chosroes I.
The scene on the back includes a pyre burning on an altar, with a star above.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
