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Drachm - Abdagases I - 12 BC-130 AD Province of Sakastan
| Issuer | Indo-Parthian Kingdom |
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| Year | 55-110 |
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| Currency | Drachm (12 BC-225 AD) |
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| Obverse lettering | AV |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Abdagases I ruled as a subordinate king under the Indo-Parthian Gondopharid dynasty, governing Sakastan — the region roughly corresponding to modern Sistan in southeastern Iran and southwestern Afghanistan — during a period when Gondophares I was consolidating control over the broader Indo-Parthian territories. The precise chronology of Abdagases remains contested; the wide date range reflects ongoing scholarly disagreement about his relationship to Gondophares and whether he ruled concurrently or successively.
MIG 1077 places this squarely within Mitchiner's Indo-Greek and Indo-Scythian classification framework. Sakastan-struck silver of this dynasty tends to show pronounced die axis inconsistency across the series.