JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY. 
Part I.—HISTORY, LITERATURE, &c. 
No. II.—1874. 
Note on a hoard of 543 Sassanian Coins in the possession of Col. II. 
Hyde, B. JE.—By The Honoeable E. C. Bayley, C. S. I. 
(With a plate.) 
I enclose for the information of the Asiatic Society a tabulated analy¬ 
sis of a hoard of 543 Sassanian coins, which has recently been acquired by 
Col. Hyde, 14. E., and which he has been good enough to submit to me for 
examination. As will be observed, it consists wholly of the coins of three 
kings—Khusru I. (the celebrated Nauslurwan) ; Hormazd IV., surnamed 
il Turkzadah and Khusru II. Parwiz. There are 42 coins of Khusru I., 
103 of Hormazd IV., 394 of Khusru II., besides four the legends on which 
are not legible, but of which two may safely be assigned to Khusru II., and 
the other to one or other of the two preceding kings. 
The coins of all other kings are wanting, even those of Varahran Cliobin, 
the usurper general who contested the succession with Khusru II. 
Whether this is accidental or not I cannot say. It possibly may he due 
to the calling in and recoinage of the money of his earlier predecessors by 
Khusru II., whose own coinage was certainly very large. 
The dates on the coins range from the 1st 3 ^ear of Khusru I. to the 
39th (or last) of Khusru II., that is, from 530 or 531, A. D. to 628, A. D. 
There are a few dates missing, notably the first years both of Hor¬ 
mazd IV. and Khusru II. 
There can, however, I think from the character of the hoard be little 
doubt that it was concealed immediately on the deposition of Khusru II. 
