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Hemidrachm - Darayan I
| Issuer | Persis, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 132 BC - 100 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | Fire temple depicted at center, with the divine figure of Ahura-Mazda hovering above to the left in the field. A standing figure of the king faces right before the altar, rendered in the hieratic style characteristic of Persis coinage. To the right, a column surmounted by an eagle completes the composition, a standard dynastic and religious iconographic arrangement for this series. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Darius I of Persis — known in the sources as Darayan — ruled as one of the Frataraka successors who governed the region as semi-autonomous dynasts under Seleucid suzerainty before asserting fuller independence. The Hemidrachm denomination places this issue within a monetary system consciously calibrated to Seleucid weight standards, a pragmatic accommodation to regional trade networks even as the dynasty increasingly emphasized its Iranian heritage in iconography. Alram 555 and Sunrise 581 represent a tightly defined type within what remains a sparsely documented series.