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Hemidrachm - Ardakhshir III
| Issuer | Persis, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 120-150 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (120-150) |
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Ardakhshir III ruled Persis as a vassal king under Parthian suzerainty, and his coinage reflects the persistent local dynastic tradition that Persis maintained even as the Arsacid empire dominated the surrounding region. The Persid kings were conscious heirs to Achaemenid memory, and their insistence on issuing independent fractional silver — when client rulers elsewhere did not — signals deliberate dynastic self-assertion rather than mere administrative habit.
Alram 630 and Sunrise 656 align on this type, suggesting a reasonably well-documented die corpus for the series, though surviving examples remain scarce in Western collections.