The characters on both obverse and reverse are also carelessly rendered, and can only with much difficulty be deciphered.
Sapor III.

died A.D.388, after reigning a little more than five years.

He was a man of simple tastes, and is said to have been fond of exchanging the magnificence and dreary etiquette of the court for the freedom and ease of a life under tents.

On an occasion when he was thus enjoying himself, it happened that one of those violent hurricanes, to which Persia is subject, arose, and, falling in full force on the royal encampment, blew down the tent wherein he was sitting.

It happened unfortunately that the main tent-pole struck him, as it fell, in a vital part, and Sapor died from the blow.