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is depicted, with an inscription circled around it. Farn-Sasan is the only king known to show a fire altar on coins originating from
Sakastan. Around the same time, another king issued coins with a similar fire-altar depicted on it, which was the Sasanian ruler
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Neither Adur-Sasan nor Tirdat is known to have ruled, which implies that Farn-Sasan was seemingly from a cadet branch of the dynasty. On the obverse of his coins, he is portrayed with a cap. On the reverse, a
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