The first Sasanian coins became popular with the bust of Ardašīr I, looking to the right. The rotation of the bust to the right was itself a symbol of the evolution of SasaninSasanian coins' iconography beside the iconographic pattern of Parthian coins, which shows the portrait of the Parthian king's bust rotating to the left. Some numismatists believe that Ardašīr I, with this turn to the right, wanted to show his revolt and victory over Ardavan IV, the last Parthian king, and change of the government. theThe reverse of Ardašīr's coins bears a fire- alter; this image iswas preserved with a few changes until the end of the reign of the last Sasanian king, as a fixed image of the reverse of coins, which is a symbol of the official religion of the Sassanian. It can be said that the patterns of obverse and reverse of Sassanian coins are a symbol of the combination of religion and government in the Sassanian period.
In this article, the author examines the symbolic motifs of coins obverse and reverse of the first Sassanian kings, and
wantwants to show with what belief and thought or circumstances the various manifestations of Sassanian art, are set to the crowns of kings; for. For example, we can refer to the role of palm branches on the Narseh crown, which is the symbol of the goddess Anahita and is set after the restoration of the custodianship of the Anahita Temple of Estaxr from Kartir by the Sassanian king, or raised wings which is the symbol of the god of victory or Verethraqna is set on the crown of Bahram II for his victory.

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