Hemidrachm - Ardakhshir II

Ardakhshir II ruled Persis as a vassal kingdom under Parthian suzerainty, and his coinage reflects the uncomfortable balancing act of a local dynast maintaining regional identity while operating within a larger imperial orbit. The Persis kingdom preserved Achaemenid traditions with unusual stubbornness — cultural continuity expressed through coin types long after the dynasty itself had fallen to Alexander.

Alram 571 places this hemidrachm within a sequence that numismatists have used to reconstruct the otherwise poorly documented succession of Persis rulers, where no ancient literary source gives reliable regnal dates.