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Drachm - Manchihr IV
| Issuer | Persis, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 160-200 |
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| Reference(s) | Alram#646 (no pellet in legend; Manuchtir III), Sunrise#671 |
| Obverse description | Diademed bearded bust of Manuchtir IV facing left, the hair arranged in a large globular bunch above the head secured by a diadem. The beard is rendered in multiple rows of globular curls, and the bust displays elaborate Parthian-influenced royal dress. An Aramaic inscription appears in the right field. The portrait is executed in high relief in the bold, stylized tradition characteristic of Persis dynastic coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The kings of Persis maintained a semi-autonomous coinage tradition under Parthian overlordship long after the Achaemenids fell, and by the late second century the dynastic sequence is sufficiently obscure that modern scholarship still disputes the numbering — Alram's catalog lists this type under Manuchtir III while others assign it to a fourth ruler of that name. The pellet-in-legend variant referenced by Sunrise#671 appears to distinguish issues struck at different administrative moments within the same reign, though the precise significance of that mark remains unresolved.