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Drachm - Ardashir I type I/1 - Parthian style
| Issuer | Sasanian Empire |
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| Year | 224-241 |
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| Composition | Silver (.900) |
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| Obverse script | Pahlavi |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ardashir I struck these earliest drachms in a deliberately Parthian idiom — a calculated political gesture from a ruler who had just destroyed the Arsacid dynasty at the Battle of Hormozdgan in 224 AD. The Parthian visual vocabulary was not imitated out of admiration but out of necessity: the administrative and monetary infrastructure he inherited was Arsacid, and abrupt stylistic rupture risked economic disruption in territories still adjusting to new rule.
The Göbl Type I/1 classification places these among the foundational issues of Sasanian coinage, predating the more assertive imperial style that emerged as Ardashir consolidated control eastward toward Khorasan and the Kushano-Sasanian frontier.