Drachm - Ardakhshir II

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.