Drachm - Nambed

Nambed ruled Persis as a vassal under Parthian suzerainty, and his coinage reflects the diminished but persistent ambition of the local Frataraka tradition — kings who styled themselves heirs to Achaemenid authority long after the dynasty had collapsed. The Persis series is among the most challenging of all Iranian coinages to attribute precisely, with overlapping reign dates and die progressions that scholars including Alram have revised repeatedly. Sunrise 631 and Alram 605 place this issue within a narrow window of production, but the exact sequence among Nambed's emissions remains contested.