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Drachm - Pakor II
| Issuer | Persis, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 10-50 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Diademed and bearded bust of Pakor II facing left, with elaborate tiara and long curled beard rendered in fine detail. The king is depicted in armored dress with beaded ornamentation visible on the shoulder. A floral or vegetal symbol appears to the left of the bust in the field. The portrait is set within a beaded border, characteristic of the Persis dynastic coinage tradition. |
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| Reverse description | Diademed and bearded bust of the king facing left, rendered in the distinctive Persid style with tiara and long curled beard. Aramaic inscriptions appear in the right field, identifying the ruler. The design closely mirrors the obverse portrait, following the established iconographic convention of Persis dynastic drachms, with the flan showing typical irregular hammered fabric. |
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The attribution of this piece sits at the center of an ongoing scholarly dispute. Alram catalogued it under Pakor I, but Sunrise 615 reassigns the type to Pakor II — a revision driven largely by die-linkage studies and the sequence of royal titles appearing across the Persis series. The obverse symbol question is not trivial: its absence or presence has been used as a primary sorting criterion, and disagreement on that point explains why the same coin can appear under different rulers in different references.
Persis maintained a tenacious semi-autonomy under Parthian overlordship, continuing to strike its own silver long after most regional dynasties had been absorbed. These drachms circulated within a deliberately bounded geography.