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Drachm - Ardakhshir II
| Issuer | Persis, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 40 BC - 5 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Aramaic |
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| Mintage | ND (40 BC - 5 BC) |
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Persis — the heartland of ancient Fars province — maintained a line of vassal kings who struck their own silver coinage even while nominally subject to the Parthian Arsacids. Ardakhshir II ruled during a period when Parthian authority over the region was effectively nominal, and the Persid dynasts exercised genuine local autonomy, including the right to issue coin. Alram 568 places this type within a sequence that shows progressive stylistic divergence from earlier Persid issues, reflecting the dynasty's increasingly independent political posture during the late first century BC.