In 2000 an official collaborative enterprise was set up between the British Museum, the National Museum of Iran (Muzeh Melli Iran), and the British Institute of Persian Studies at the British Academy. The project's aim was to make the important Sasanian collections in Tehran and the British Museum accessible to numismatists worldwide.

The Sasanian Coin Project has resulted in a two-volume published catalogue of about 4,500 Sasanian coins in the National Museum of Iran. Volume II records the Sasanian coins from Khusrau II (AD 591-628) to Yazdgard III (AD 632-651).